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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:06:04 -0400
From:      David Rhodus <drhodus@catpa.com>
To:        Ken Marx <kmarx@vicor.com>
Cc:        Dave Parker Smith <davep@vicor.com>
Subject:   Re: 4.8 ffs_dirpref problem
Message-ID:  <E9300747-042B-11D8-8810-00039380DD2C@catpa.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F95D3F3.2050203@vicor.com>

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On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:48 PM, Ken Marx wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have 560GB raids that were sometimes bogging down heavily
> in our production systems. Under 4.8-RELEASE (recently upgrated from 
> 4.4)
> we find that when:
>
> 	o the raid file system grows to over 85% capacity (with only
> 	  30% inode usage)
> 	o we create ~1500 or so 2-6kb files in a given dir
> 	o (note: soft updates NOT enabled)

I have one question, why do you have softupdates turned off ?
With softupdates it could be possible to get faster writes than using
an async mount.

-DR



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