Martin Knoblauch wrote:
Hi,
currently I am tracking down an "interesting" effect when writing to a
Solars-10/Sparc based server. The server exports two filesystems. One UFS,
one VXFS. The filesystems are mounted NFS3/TCP, no special options. Linux
kernel in question is 2.6.24-rc6, but it happens with earlier kernels
(2.6.19.2, 2.6.22.6) as well. The client is x86_64 with 8 GB of ram.
The problem: when writing to the VXFS based filesystem, performance drops
dramatically when the the filesize reaches or exceeds "dirty_ratio". For a
dirty_ratio of 10% (about 800MB) files below 750 MB are transfered with about
30 MB/sec. Anything above 770 MB drops down to below 10 MB/sec. If I perform
the same tests on the UFS based FS, performance stays at about 30 MB/sec
until 3GB and likely larger (I just stopped at 3 GB).
Any ideas what could cause this difference? Any suggestions on debugging it?
1) Try normal NFS tuning, such as rsize/wsize tuning.
2) You're entering synchronous writeback mode, so you can delay the problem by
raising dirty_ratio to 100, or reduce the size of the problem by lowering
dirty_ratio to 1. Either one could help.
3) It sounds like the bottleneck is the vxfs filesystem. It only *appears* on
the client side because writes up until dirty_ratio get buffered on the client.
If you can confirm that the server is actually writing stuff to disk slower
when the client is in writeback mode, then it's possible the Linux NFS client is
doing something inefficient in writeback mode.
-- Chris
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