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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How can btrfs take 23sec to stat 23K files from an SSD?
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:21:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120801062156.GI12695@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG1y0sdnyv4O8zab+WwLxZ6qUJTcVryrAgnDfv5eiAw+eZh-Gg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:08:46PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> > It it were a random crappy SSD from a random vendor, I'd blame the SSD, but
> > I have a hard time believing that samsung is selling SSDs that are slower
> > than hard drives at random IO and 'seeks'.
> 
> You'd be surprised on how badly some vendors can screw up :)
 
At some point, it may come down to that indeed :-/
I'm still hopefully that Samsung didn't, but we'll see.
 
> > First: btrfs is the slowest:
> 
> > gandalfthegreat:/mnt/ssd/var/local# grep /mnt/ssd/var /proc/mounts
> > /dev/mapper/ssd /mnt/ssd/var btrfs rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache 0 0
> 
> Just checking, did you explicitly activate "discard"? Cause on my

Yes. Note that it should a noop when all you're doing is stating inodes and
not writing (I'm using noatime).

> setup (with corsair SSD) it made things MUCH slower. Also, try adding
> "noatime" (just in case the slow down was because "du" cause many
> access time updates)

I have noatime in there already :)

Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 15:45 du -s src is a lot slower on SSD than spinning disk in the same laptop Marc MERLIN
     [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1207252023080.4340@(none)>
2012-07-25 23:38   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-26  3:32   ` Ted Ts'o
2012-07-26  3:35     ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-26  6:54     ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-01  5:30       ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-01  6:01         ` How can btrfs take 23sec to stat 23K files from an SSD? Marc MERLIN
2012-08-01  6:08           ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-08-01  6:21             ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2012-08-01 21:57               ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-02  5:07                 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-02 11:18                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-02 17:39                     ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-02 20:20                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-02 20:44                         ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-02 21:21                           ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-02 21:49                             ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-03 18:45                               ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-16  7:45                                 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-02 11:25                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-01  6:36           ` Chris Samuel
2012-08-01  6:40             ` Marc MERLIN
2012-08-01  8:18         ` du -s src is a lot slower on SSD than spinning disk in the same laptop Spelic
2012-08-16  7:50         ` Marc MERLIN
     [not found]           ` <502CC2A2.4010506@shiftmail.org>
2012-08-16 17:55             ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-05 16:52               ` ext4 crash with 3.5.2 in ext4_ext_remove_space Marc MERLIN
2012-09-05 17:50                 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-05 17:53                   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-06  4:24                   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-07 15:19                     ` Marc MERLIN
2012-09-07 15:39                       ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-07 15:51                         ` Marc MERLIN
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-24  6:18 How can btrfs take 23sec to stat 23K files from an SSD? Marc MERLIN
2012-01-30  0:37 brtfs on top of dmcrypt with SSD. No corruption iff write cache off? Marc MERLIN
2012-02-01 17:56 ` Chris Mason
2012-02-02  3:23   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-02-02 12:42     ` Chris Mason
     [not found]       ` <20120202152722.GI12429@merlins.org>
2012-02-12 22:32         ` Marc MERLIN
2012-02-12 23:47           ` Milan Broz
2012-02-13  0:14             ` Marc MERLIN
2012-02-15 15:42               ` Calvin Walton
2012-02-15 16:55                 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-02-15 16:59                   ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-22 10:28                     ` Justin Ossevoort
2012-02-22 11:07                       ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-16  6:33               ` Chris Samuel
2012-02-18 12:33               ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-02-18 12:39               ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-02-18 12:49                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-18 18:13               ` brtfs on top of dmcrypt with SSD -> Trim or no Trim Marc MERLIN
2012-07-18 20:04                 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2012-07-18 20:37                   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-18 21:34                   ` Clemens Eisserer
2012-07-18 21:48                     ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-18 21:49                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-18 22:04                   ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-19 10:40                     ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-22 18:58                     ` brtfs on top of dmcrypt with SSD -> ssd or nossd + crypt performance? Marc MERLIN
2012-07-22 19:35                       ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-22 19:43                         ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-22 20:44                         ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-22 22:41                           ` brtfs on top of dmcrypt with SSD -> file access 5x slower than spinning disk Marc MERLIN
2012-07-23  6:42                             ` How can btrfs take 23sec to stat 23K files from an SSD? Marc MERLIN
2012-07-24  7:56                               ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-07-27  4:40                                 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-27 11:08                               ` Chris Mason
2012-07-27 18:42                                 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-02-18 16:07             ` brtfs on top of dmcrypt with SSD. No corruption iff write cache off? Marc MERLIN
2012-02-19  0:53               ` Clemens Eisserer

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