* Re: [linux-lvm] performance problems
@ 2000-06-05 16:58 Andreas Dilger
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From: Andreas Dilger @ 2000-06-05 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux LVM mailing list
Chris writes:
> We are using LVM on a (hardware) RAID array and are
> having some performance problems. File copying is
> very slow and one of the guys using it reported that
> untarring was very sluggish, and he got I/O errors.
> Is this a known problem? I believe we are using 0.8i
> and we are using 2.2.13 kernel. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
Have you been using LVM without problem before, or is this a brand new
installation?
If the speed problem is new (i.e. LVM has been installed and working
well for a while), it may well be that you have a disk problem, and the
RAID array is slow because it needs to do extra parity calculations for
all I/O. Getting I/O errors is a bad sign, as LVM doesn't know anything
about hardware RAID, it only knows there is a big disk beneath it.
If it is a new LVM installation, it may be that you want to check the
RAID stripe size/PE size/ext2 RAID stride are all set to reasonable
multiples of each other for maximum performance.
Cheers, Andreas
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* Re: [linux-lvm] performance problems
2000-06-05 16:00 Chris Campbell
2000-06-05 19:11 ` Paul Jakma
@ 2000-06-06 2:17 ` Matthew O'Keefe
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From: Matthew O'Keefe @ 2000-06-06 2:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Campbell; +Cc: linux-lvm
Hi,
have you really isolated the problem to LVM? Is the performance
good without LVM on this particular array?
Matt O'Keefe
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:00:16AM -0700, Chris Campbell wrote:
> We are using LVM on a (hardware) RAID array and are
> having some performance problems. File copying is
> very slow and one of the guys using it reported that
> untarring was very sluggish, and he got I/O errors.
> Is this a known problem? I believe we are using 0.8i
> and we are using 2.2.13 kernel. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Chris
>
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* Re: [linux-lvm] performance problems
2000-06-05 16:00 Chris Campbell
@ 2000-06-05 19:11 ` Paul Jakma
2000-06-06 2:17 ` Matthew O'Keefe
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From: Paul Jakma @ 2000-06-05 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Campbell; +Cc: linux-lvm
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Chris Campbell wrote:
> We are using LVM on a (hardware) RAID array and are
> having some performance problems. File copying is
> very slow and one of the guys using it reported that
> untarring was very sluggish, and he got I/O errors.
> Is this a known problem? I believe we are using 0.8i
> and we are using 2.2.13 kernel. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
did you specify for any LV's to be contigious?
i've seen something similar where i get I/O errors because (i
suspect) an contigious LV can't find any contigious blocks. (even
though there's plenty of space in the VG.
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* [linux-lvm] performance problems
@ 2000-06-05 16:00 Chris Campbell
2000-06-05 19:11 ` Paul Jakma
2000-06-06 2:17 ` Matthew O'Keefe
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From: Chris Campbell @ 2000-06-05 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-lvm
We are using LVM on a (hardware) RAID array and are
having some performance problems. File copying is
very slow and one of the guys using it reported that
untarring was very sluggish, and he got I/O errors.
Is this a known problem? I believe we are using 0.8i
and we are using 2.2.13 kernel. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Chris
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