Re: batching support for transactions

2007-10-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
Andreas Dilger wrote: On Oct 02, 2007 08:57 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: One thing that jumps out is that the way we currently batch synchronous work loads into transactions does really horrible things to performance for storage devices which have really low latency. For example, one a

Re: batching support for transactions

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Oct 03, 2007 06:42 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: With 2 threads writing to the same directory, we instantly drop down to 234 files/sec. Is this with HZ=250? Yes - I assume that with HZ=1000 the batching would start to work again since the penalty for batching would only be 1ms which

Re: batching support for transactions

2007-10-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
Andreas Dilger wrote: On Oct 03, 2007 06:42 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: With 2 threads writing to the same directory, we instantly drop down to 234 files/sec. Is this with HZ=250? Yes - I assume that with HZ=1000 the batching would start to work again since the penalty for batching would only