How big is the write cache in your RAID array? If the log is the
only thing being written to, and it fits within the cache, then it
can easily push several hundred MB/s of write IO....
I asked around and people believe the cache is on the order of a few GB and the test ran I was intentionally large enough to overshadow any cache effects, running for about a minute and doing 100K 1K file creates. The disk write data was close to a sustained 475MB/sec and would have easily filled the cache in the first handful of seconds which would have produced enough backpressure to slow down the write rate which it never did.
On a totally different topic, and if you like we can start a different thread on it, I'd be interested in adding some monitoring stats to collectl for xfs and could use some suggestions of what are the most important.
-mark
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