Re: Linux disk performance.

["Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli" <chbhanukalyan@gmail.com>]

On 12/20/06, Manish Regmi <regmi.manish@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > When you submit a request to an empty block device queue, it can
> > get "plugged" for a number of timer ticks before any IO is actually
> > started. This is done for efficiency reasons and is independent of
> > the IO scheduler used.
> >
>
> Thanks for the information..
>
> > Use the noop IO scheduler, as well as the attached patch, and let's
> > see what your numbers look like.
> >
>
> Unfortunately i got the same results even after applying your patch. I
> also tried putting
> q->unplug_delay = 1;
> But it did not work. The result was similar.

I am assuming that your program is not seeking inbetween writes.

Try disabling the Disk Cache, now-a-days some disks can have as much
as 8MB write cache. so the disk might be buffering as much as it can,
and trying to write only when it can no longer buffer. Since you have
an app which continously write copious amounts of data, in order,
disabling write cache might make some sense.

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