On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:28:19PM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote: > > 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. > > If a limited number of blocks gets written over and over, you won't > ever fill the cache. Right, and the XFS log is circular and about 1GB in size on the filesystem under test, so should fit completely in cache. Hence speeds faster than a physical disk are acheivable if the log stays resident in the cache.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
