Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168499
EXT3 filesystem writes are half slower than reads during backup and restore
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Hi, I am using Redhat AS 3.0 (2.4.21-20.ELsmp) with EXT3 filesystems. The disks reside on a Fibre connected HP SAN storage. I am using HP Data Protector 5.0 for backups/restores.During backups, the average read speed is around 28 MB/s but during restores the write speeds drops down to 12-14MB/s.I have tried this on RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 storage but resutlts were the same. Please help. Thanks. Ashish Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Restore to RAID 0+1 2.Restore to RAID5 3. Actual Results: Results were the same. Write speed was around 12-14 MB/s MB/s. Expected Results: Write speed should have been atleast 20-25 MB/s. Additional info:
What is the HBA and driver? what model storage? any error messages in /var/log/messages? The easiest way to proivide the needed info is to run sysreport and post the results. To start with, it would be helpful to get some raw I/O performance numbers, excluding the filesystem, etc. If you have a partition on the storage that you can scratch, then run a simple test like "badblocks" and compare with "badblocks -w". Use "vmstat 1" to monitor the performance. Post the reasults.
Hi, Please find the results of "sysreport" attached. Do I really need to run tests on raw device because the issue here is the write performance on the same filesystem while read performance is decent. Thanks. Ashish
Please let me know how can I attach the output file of sysreport as it is bzipped tar archive and bugzilla site is not allowing to attach it. Thanks.
Created attachment 119027 [details] Result of sysreport I have attached the result of sysreport as requested. Thanks.
Reverting to ASSIGNED state.
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