Re: How filesystems matter with PostgreSQL

From: Jon Schewe <jpschewe(at)mtu(dot)net>
To: Bryan Hinton <bryan(at)bryanhinton(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How filesystems matter with PostgreSQL
Date: 2010-06-04 18:44:18
Message-ID: 4C094982.4040203@mtu.net
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I just used standard mkfs for each filesystem and mounted them without
options, unless otherwise specified.

On 6/4/10 1:37 PM, Bryan Hinton wrote:
> What types of journaling on each fs?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe(at)mtu(dot)net
> <mailto:jpschewe(at)mtu(dot)net>> wrote:
>
> On 6/4/10 9:33 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On Friday 04 June 2010 16:25:30 Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de <mailto:andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>>
> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Friday 04 June 2010 14:17:35 Jon Schewe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> XFS (logbufs=8): ~4 hours to finish
> >>>> ext4: ~1 hour 50 minutes to finish
> >>>> ext3: 15 minutes to finish
> >>>> ext3 on LVM: 15 minutes to finish
> >>>>
> >>> My guess is that some of the difference comes from barrier
> differences.
> >>> ext4 uses barriers by default, ext3 does not.
> >>>
> >> Or, to put it more clearly: the reason ext3 is fast is that
> it's unsafe.
> >>
> > Jon: To verify you can enable it via the barrier=1 option during
> mounting..
> >
> >
> >
> First some details:
> Linux kernel 2.6.31
> postgres version: 8.4.2
>
> More test results:
> reiserfs: ~1 hour 50 minutes
> ext3 barrier=1: ~15 minutes
> ext4 nobarrier: ~15 minutes
> jfs: ~15 minutes
>
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