On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:13, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Badari" == Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Badari> What kernel are you running ? Does the kernel has ext3
> Badari> "reservation" support enabled ?
> 2.6.11, and yes, although it's not set in the mount options.
2.6.11 has "reservation" turned ON by default. You should be
fine.
>
>
> Badari> Do you see performance problem
> Badari> with "read" tests also ?
>
> Yes.
Hmm.
>
> Badari> And also, does the write test writes
> Badari> to multiple files in the same directory ? Or multiple threads
> Badari> writing to same file ?
>
> It's standard iozone --- mutliple processes writing to multiple files in
> the same directory.
If you are running multiple files in the same directory, without
reservations files will be badly fragmented.
Can you run "filefrag" on the files ?
(I am also assuming each process writes to its own file).
Thanks,
Badari
>
> All the mount options are the defaults.
>
> A sample test is:
>
> mdadm -Ss
> mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 0 -c 1024 -n 2 -R /dev/sdc /dev/sdk
> mke2fs -j /dev/md0
> mount /dev/md0 /shift/oplapro97/data01
> cd /shift/oplapro97/data01
> iozone -MCew -t1 -f IOZONE -s32g -r256k -i0 -i1 > ~/tests/unsw_ext3/iozone_2_disk_1stream_ext3
> rm -rf /shift/oplapro97/data01/*
> iozone -MCew -t2 -f IOZONE -s32g -r256k -i0 -i1 > ~/tests/unsw_ext3/iozone_2_disk_2stream_ext3
>
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