On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, dean gaudet wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote:
What benefit would I gain by using an external journel and how big would it
need to be?
i don't know how big the journal needs to be... i'm limited by xfs'
maximum journal size of 128MiB.
i don't have much benchmark data -- but here are some rough notes i took
when i was evaluating a umem NVRAM card. since the pata disks in the
raid1 have write caching enabled it's somewhat of an unfair comparison,
but the important info is the 88 seconds for internal journal vs. 81
seconds for external journal.
if you turn on disk write caching the difference will be much larger.
-dean
time sh -c 'tar xf /var/tmp/linux-2.6.20.tar; sync'
I know that sync will force everything to get as far as the journal, will
it force the journal to be flushed?
David Lang
xfs journal raid5 bitmap times
internal none 0.18s user 2.14s system 2% cpu 1:27.95 total
internal internal 0.16s user 2.16s system 1% cpu 2:01.12 total
raid1 none 0.07s user 2.02s system 2% cpu 1:20.62 total
raid1 internal 0.14s user 2.01s system 1% cpu 1:55.18 total
raid1 raid1 0.14s user 2.03s system 2% cpu 1:20.61 total
umem none 0.13s user 2.07s system 2% cpu 1:20.77 total
umem internal 0.15s user 2.16s system 2% cpu 1:51.28 total
umem umem 0.12s user 2.13s system 2% cpu 1:20.50 total
raid5:
- 4x seagate 7200.10 400GB on marvell MV88SX6081
- mdadm --create --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/md4 /dev/sd[abcd]1
raid1:
- 2x maxtor 6Y200P0 on 3ware 7504
- two 128MiB partitions starting at cyl 1
- mdadm --create --level=1 --raid-disks=2 --auto=yes --assume-clean /dev/md1 /dev/sd[fg]1
- mdadm --create --level=1 --raid-disks=2 --auto=yes --assume-clean /dev/md2 /dev/sd[fg]2
- md1 is used for external xfs journal
- md2 has an ext3 filesystem for the external md4 bitmap
xfs:
- mkfs.xfs issued before each run using the defaults (aside from -l logdev=/dev/md1)
- mount -o noatime,nodiratime[,logdev=/dev/md1]
umem:
- 512MiB Micro Memory MM-5415CN
- 2 partitions similar to the raid1 setup
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