[OpenAFS] Server disk operations speed

Jukka Tuominen jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:50:54 +0300


On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 23:37 +0200, Markus Koeberl wrote:
> On Monday 08 April 2013 20:52:23 jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi wrote:
> 
> > > On Sunday 07 April 2013 20:55:41 jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi
> wrote:
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Check the I/O scheduler settings on your virtual machine and on
> the
> 
> > > server.
> 
> > > The default cfq is not the fastest for this usecase. Especially if
> you
> 
> > > are using a battery backed hw raid you may test both set to noop.

It is set to noop IIUC

> noop anticipatory [deadline] cfq

>  
> 
> Also check if you have disabled atime for the /vicepX filesytem
> 

No 'noatime' tags in fstab


Although these didn't reveal the bottleneck in this case, they'll make a
great addition to the troubleshooting list for later, thanks!

The quest continues...

br, jukka