Yaron Zabary wrote:
That was a typo. Anyhow, I would expect that your adv_file might have
a problem with writing to a large file. How many sessions do you run ?
Come to think of it, we had a Dell machine which had some issues with
PERC anc RedHat (it crashed under heavy load). Did you try to strace the
nsrmmd ?
Well, the nsrmmd is pegged again during the Oracle backups (although
this is occuring while I'm also running nsrstage, but that seems to be
running fine). Here is an strace excerpt. Doesn't seem to be anything
unusual there, but I'm not sure what to expect right now:
write(9, "77\2\0", 4) = 4
_llseek(9, 0, [18376041636], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(9, "\301\3\1\0\200\7\0xk\2\32\25\23\t\21\0SeekerSourcesDat"...,
27620) = 27620
time([1188924190]) = 1188924190
select(1024, [3 5 8], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {5, 0})
_llseek(9, 0, [18376069256], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(9, "\0\0\1\0\0\1\0\4\0\0\0\0nodeId=\'12863522\']\1\0"..., 5028) = 5028
time([1188924191]) = 1188924191
select(1024, [3 5 8], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {5, 0})
read(8, "ReleaseNode\36\0ReleaseNode[nodeId="..., 32768) = 32768
_llseek(9, 0, [18376074284], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(9, "Rele", 4) = 4
_llseek(9, 0, [18376074288], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(9, "aseNode\36\0ReleaseNode[nodeId=\'128"..., 32764) = 32764
time([1188924191]) = 1188924191
select(1024, [3 5 8], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {5, 0})
read(8, "927a-ae828c72ab77\n\0en_us \7\0x"..., 32768) = 32768
_llseek(9, 0, [18376107052], SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(9, "927a", 4) = 4
_llseek(9, 0, [18376107056], SEEK_CUR) = 0
My THEORY is that the slow speed is caused when the ext3 code trying
to allocate more blocks to the saveset's file. Try to run four
concurrent 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/advfs/somefile bs=1m count=200000' and
see if you can still see the performance decrease.
I'll have to wait until everything completes to try that. I had
_thought_ that adv_file would break up the savesets still, but that
doesn't appear to be the case - I see 480GB file! Still, when I
initially downgraded to 7.3.2 it created that file fine, and it did a
40GB backup in less than 19 minutes yesterday, but today its only up to
18GB after 1:50 and crawling...
I might have to actually call support *shudder*
-Brian
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