LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load | Linux Today

LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 29, 2010

[ Thanks to Andre Felipe Machado for
this link. ]

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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