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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] LVM performance problems
From: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert () gmx ! de>
Date: 2007-05-04 15:12:48
Message-ID: 200705041712.48667.bernd-schubert () gmx ! de
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On Friday 04 May 2007 15:40:37 Judd Tracy wrote:
> I am trying to bring up a small file server and am noticing some serious
> performance issues when using LVM. I created a software raid /dev/md0
> which I can read at ~195MB/s using the raw raid device, but as soon as I
> put LVM on top of it the read speeds drop to ~95MB/s using a raw lvm
> partition without a filesystem. When I use and xfs filesystem on top of
> the lvm partition it drops down to ~40MB/s. This seems like a
> processing power issue, but the machine is a dual processor opteron
> system with 4GB of ram in it. Does anyone have some insight into why I
> might be having such problems with the system.
try something like this:
blockdev --setra 8192 /dev/{volumegroup}/{logical_volume}
You should also try smaller and larger numbers.
Hope it helps,
Bernd
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