Re: Btrfs performance problem; metadata size to blame?

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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:18 PM, John . <btrfsprob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use Ubuntu with kernel 3.8.0-19-generic. I also tested with the
> latest live disk of Arch Linux; write performance was the same (bad).
>
> My mount options: rw,compress=lzo.
> Iotop does not show any strange disk activity.
>
> 2013/4/28 Harald Glatt <mail@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:10 PM, John . <btrfsprob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Harald,
>>>
>>> I did perform a defrag of the volume a few hours ago. This did not
>>> make a difference. :(
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> 2013/4/28 Harald Glatt <mail@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:04 PM, John . <btrfsprob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> My Btrfs fs has a performance problem which I hope you can help me
>>>>> solve. I have a dataset of around 3.15 TiB, that has lived on a ZFS
>>>>> volume for almost two years (ZRAID1, 4 2TiB disks). In order to move
>>>>> to Btrfs I bought myself a 4TiB disk with the idea of buying a new one
>>>>> next week and balance it to a RAID1 of 2 4TiB disks.
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a single disk Btrfs volume with the default mkfs options (no
>>>>> data duplication, metadata duplication on). Next I transferred my
>>>>> dataset to this disk (no problems there). Today when I tried to create
>>>>> a directory and I noticed the Btrfs volume was awefully slow; it took
>>>>> a few seconds to create the directory and a few to delete it (which
>>>>> should be milliseconds as you know). In fact each and every operation
>>>>> on the volume grinded the fs down to a halt.
>>>>>
>>>>> FS information:
>>>>>
>>>>> # btrfs fi df /storage
>>>>> Data: total=3.29TB, used=3.15TB
>>>>> System, DUP: total=8.00MB, used=360.00KB
>>>>> System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00
>>>>> Metadata, DUP: total=4.00GB, used=3.88GB
>>>>> Metadata: total=8.00MB, used=0.00
>>>>>
>>>>> # btrfs fi show
>>>>> Label: 'storage'  uuid: 3fa262cd-baa9-46dc-92a8-318c87166186
>>>>>         Total devices 1 FS bytes used 3.16TB
>>>>>         devid    1 size 3.64TB used 3.30TB path /dev/sdb
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect my performance blow has everything to do with the abysmally
>>>>> low amount of space for metadata that is left, but since I am not a
>>>>> Btrfs guru I don't now whether this is truly the case and/or how to
>>>>> solve it. btrfs fi balance start -dusage=5 did not help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>
>>>>> John
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>>>> Try to defragment the root of the volume (e.g the mountpoint). While
>>>> it's mounted:
>>>> btrfs fi defrag /path/to/mnt
>>>>
>>>> Then try performance again
>>
>> What kernel version do you use? What are your mount options? Try to
>> run iotop and see if there is any unusual activity...

Try mount -o inode_cache,space_cache,autodefrag - first mount with the
new options might take a while, also there might be disk activity for
a while after mounting with this...
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