Poor LVM dump performance
Hi everyone,
I've run into som substantial read degredation when using dump or tar to backup filesystems that are stored on LVM2 LVs. Many times in the past I have seen dump run at speeds approaching block device speeds; 50-60MiB/s, similar with tar.
I'm seeing speeds in the range of 3-4MiB/s when dumping a filesystem. If I increase dump's blocksize to 128KiB records, speed jumps up to about 20KiB/s, which is better but still frustratingly slow. Going to 1024KiB gets me about 28MiB/s.
Is this amount of performance loss expected? My LV is just two SATA hard disks that I put into a VG. Stupid benchmarks with dd gives me a raw read speed from the LV of about 60MiB/sec.
Any ideas on what's slowing down dump?
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