:LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load
LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load 0 Talkback[s] (Other stories by André Felipe Machado
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"Thousands concurrent parallel read write accesses over tens of millions of small files is a terrible performance tuning problem for e-mail servers.
"You must understand and fine tune all your infrastructure chain, following the previous articles for data storage and multipath on Debian 5.x Lenny.
"We reduced the CPU I/O wait from 30% to 0,3% (XFS) and 5% (EXT3) with these combined previously undocumented file system tuning tips."
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