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SubjectRe: File System Performance
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>I tried an experiment which puzzled me somwhat:
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>> mount /xfs
>> cd /xfs/lord/xfs-linux
>> time tar cf /dev/null linux
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>real 0m7.743s
>user 0m0.510s
>sys 0m1.380s
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>>hdparm -t /dev/sda5
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>/dev/sda5:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.76 seconds = 17.02 MB/sec
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>>du -sk linux
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>173028 linux
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>The tar got ~21 Mbytes/sec.
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Things I'll check :

0/ rerun this test !!!
1/ is there cache on the scsi controler ?
2/ xfs data cached at mount ? (I don't believe so)
3/ "hdparm -t" is on crack.
4/ du reports a disk usage way ahead of files' sizes total (don't know
xfs enough to estimate this propability) and tar won't read the whole
"du -sk" data.


2/ "time mount /xfs" could help (if mount + tar times are below
expected, this case can be eliminated).
3/ ask hdparm's maintener.
4/ tar, check tar size.

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