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LVM is low

linux-lvm Grégory Duchatelet 4 participants 7 messages Jun 20, 2005 – Jun 22, 2005

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Hi list,

I install a server with LVM partitions with ReiserFS, server runs OpenLDAP, Tomcat5, Apache2, Samba, etc....

Comparing with native ReiserFS, LVM is really low .... how to tune it for best performance ?

Thanks

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Gr�gory Duchatelet <[email protected]>
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ADSiS - Technologies Open-Source
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Gr�gory Duchatelet a �crit :

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Hi list,

I install a server with LVM partitions with ReiserFS, server runs OpenLDAP, Tomcat5, Apache2, Samba, etc....

Comparing with native ReiserFS, LVM is really low .... how to tune it for best performance ?

Thanks

please, help !

or any links to howtos or wiki or documentations ...

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Gr�gory Duchatelet <[email protected]>
Ing�nieur syst�mes & r�seaux
ADSiS - Technologies Open-Source
http://www.adsis.fr/ - <[email protected]>
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Gr�gory Duchatelet a �crit :

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Hi list,

I install a server with LVM partitions with ReiserFS, server runs OpenLDAP, Tomcat5, Apache2, Samba, etc....

Comparing with native ReiserFS, LVM is really low

Could you try explaining "really low" some more?

Regards,
Jonathan

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.... how to tune it
for best performance ?

Thanks

please, help !

or any links to howtos or wiki or documentations ...

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Hi list,

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I install a server with LVM partitions with ReiserFS, server runs OpenLDAP, Tomcat5, Apache2, Samba, etc....

Comparing with native ReiserFS, LVM is really low

Could you try explaining "really low" some more?

I copy lots of files with scp, from an old server to this new one with LVM. The system is unsuable during the copy, but not with a server with standards partitions...

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Why dont you create a 'regular' reiserfs partition on the same server and re-try your transfer.

Comparing to another server isnt really fair; too many other factors: OS level, Network, Config, Server Load, Hardware, Disks, etc.

Scp isn't a good gauge of disk performance, as its bottlenecks are network and CPU (decryption). Why not try 'bonnie', a disk benchmarker.

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Could you try explaining "really low" some more?

I copy lots of files with scp, from an old server to this new one with LVM. The system is unsuable during the copy, but not with a server with standards partitions...

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Alan W. Jurgensen - Berbee Information Networks - [email protected] 
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Why dont you create a 'regular' reiserfs partition on the same server and re-try your transfer.

Comparing to another server isnt really fair; too many other factors: OS level, Network, Config, Server Load, Hardware, Disks, etc.

Scp isn't a good gauge of disk performance, as its bottlenecks are network and CPU (decryption). Why not try 'bonnie', a disk benchmarker.

This server has a regular reiserfs partition earlier, i just reinstall it with LVM, and now i didn't need benchmarkers to see that write access is really really low !! :-(

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Gr�gory Duchatelet <[email protected]>
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ADSiS - Technologies Open-Source
http://www.adsis.fr/ - <[email protected]>
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Hi list,

I install a server with LVM partitions with ReiserFS, server runs OpenLDAP, Tomcat5, Apache2, Samba, etc....

Comparing with native ReiserFS, LVM is really low

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Could you try explaining "really low" some more?

I copy lots of files with scp, from an old server to this new one with LVM. The system is unsuable during the copy, but not with a server with standards partitions...

http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/slowdown/