On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:52, chris (fool) mccraw <gently@gmail.com> wrote:
however, snapshots really shoot my system in the foot. in my (12
processor, 12GB RAM, x86_64 centos 5.5) server, i have two pricey
areca hardware raid cards that give me ridiculous write performance:
i can sustain over 700MByte/sec write speeds (writing a file with dd
if=/dev/zero bs=1M, twice the size of the raid card's onboard memory
and timing the write + a sync afterwards) to the volumes on either
card (both backed by 7 or more fast disks). enabling a single
snapshot reduces that speed by a factor of 10! enabling more
snapshots isn't as drastic but still doesn't really scale well:
Once you have snapshots and are doing new dd's are you creating new files or dd'ing over the old file?
no snapshot = ~11sec (727MB/sec)
1 snapshot = ~102sec (78MB/sec)
2 snapshots = ~144sec (55MB/sec)
3 snapshots = ~313sec (25MB/sec)
4 snapshots = ~607sec (15MB/sec)
I would assume a "yes", but does your write performance return to normal after you remove all the snapshots?
Romeo
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