Re: vfs.hirunningspace on a 3ware 8506

From: Uwe Doering (gemini_at_geminix.org)
Date: 04/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:55:07 +0200
To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org

    Petri Helenius wrote:
    > Jim C. Nasby wrote:
    >
    >> Has anyone done any testing to see what value of vfs.hirunningspace is
    >> optimal for a 3ware 8506-8?
    >>
    > Do the 3ware controllers actually care about this value due to the
    > onboard processing and cache? I thought all writes are satisfied
    > immediately?

    The controller itself doesn't care, but the kernel does. With the
    current implementation, the amount of memory associated with outstanding
    read requests is subtracted from vfs.hirunningspace. With many
    concurrent read requests there is no reserve left for write operations,
    so write performance can suffer substantially.

    This balancing effect is actually intended in order to give read
    requests some priority, but in high performance systems with fast,
    caching raid controllers the default value of said variable is too low
    and therefore poses a bottleneck.

        Uwe 

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