Re: 2.5.66-mm3 - bad ext2 performance ?

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:06:24 -0700


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:00:05PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> This is kind of extreem. But I have 1070 LUNS and I mkfs/mounted (ext2) all
> these and running "fsx" on all of them.
> I see very bad IO rate on the machine. fsx with O_DIRECT seems to be
> doing okay. Any ideas on why regular filesystem (buffered) IO sucks ?
> I dont' see even cache increasing ..

Can we get a "before" profile on the same machine to compare against?

-- wli
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