Tunning on XFS
options su and sw
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=128k,sw=28 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.698s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m17.726s
READ
real 0m14.142s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m9.003s
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=128k,sw=14 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.800s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m17.689s
READ
real 0m14.371s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m8.733s
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=64k,sw=28 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.767s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m18.299s
READ
real 0m14.449s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m9.059s
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=64k,sw=14 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.809s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m17.666s
READ
real 0m14.492s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m8.623s
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=32k,sw=28 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.490s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m17.706s
READ
real 0m14.430s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m8.983s
mkfs.xfs -f -d su=32k,sw=14 /dev/sdb
WRITE
real 0m27.867s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m17.596s
READ
real 0m14.330s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m8.953s
to specify the su and sw or not to the mkfs.xfs command does make much differences to the performance of the file system
different size of INODE
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=256 /dev/sdb
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdc
real 0m27.960s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m17.509s
real 0m14.531s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m9.203s
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=512 /dev/sdb
real 0m28.027s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m17.939s
real 0m14.917s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m9.259s
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=1024 /dev/sdb
real 0m28.264s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m18.182s
real 0m14.490s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m9.286s
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=2048 /dev/sdb
real 0m28.244s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m17.799s
real 0m14.508s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m9.383s
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=3072 /dev/sdb
real 0m27.564s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m17.346s
real 0m14.523s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m9.276s
mkfs.xfs -f -i size=4096 /dev/sdb
real 0m27.969s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m17.856s
real 0m15.061s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m8.676s
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WenjingWu - 13 Mar 2008