All,
I have been observing some odd behavior regarding write throughput to an XFS partition (the baseline kernel version is 2.6.32.27). I see consistently high write throughput (close to the performance of the raw block device) to the filesystem immediately after a mkfs, but after a few test cycles, there is sporadic poor performance.
The test mechanism is like so:
[mkfs.xfs <blockdev>] (no flags/options, xfsprogs ver 3.1.1-0.1.36)
...
1. remove a previous test cycle's directory
2. create a new directory
3. open/write/close a small file (4kb) in this directory
4. open/read/close this same small file (by the local NFS server)
5. open[O_DIRECT]/write/write/write/.../close a large file (anywhere from ~100MB to 200GB)
Step #5 contains the high-throughput metrics which becomes an order of magnitude worse several test cycles after a mkfs. Omitting steps 1-3 does not show the poor performance behavior.
Can anyone provide any suggestions as to an explanation for the behavior or a way to mitigate it? Running xfs_fsr didn't seem to improve the results.
I'm happy to share benchmarks, specific results data, or describe the hardware being used for the measurements if it's helpful.
-Brian
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