[Ocfs-users] OCFS Database too slow

[Wim Coekaerts]

are you using securepath ?

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:29:47AM -0700, Varghese Abraham wrote:
> 
> Hi Wim,
>  I appreciate your reply and I have been following this mailing list very closely for the last 3-4 months.
> 
> I am not at all trying to compare between ext3 and ocfs.
> 
> The current installation that we are having is dead slow..
> 
> 
> We had a previous rac installation (TEST1 ) with OCFS ( kernel e27 , ocfs 1.0.9 , 9.2.0.3 database).
> On this old system with OCFS, our performance was beautiful.
> 
> 
> I am not able to get even a foot close to the previous systems  ( TEST 1) performance.
> 
> Neither am I blaming OCFS.
>  After having seen good performance with TEST1 system, I am unable to make out what has gone wrong with the new system although we are on the latest for everything with the new system.
> 
> I am sure it is some small issue and that is what I need your help in trying to debug.
> 
> R'gds
> Varghese Abraham.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wim.coekaerts at oracle.com [mailto:wim.coekaerts at oracle.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:13 AM
> To: Varghese Abraham
> Cc: ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs-users] OCFS Database too slow
> 
> 
> yes you are probably comparing local filesystem versus raw or cfs which
> is not cached in the OS only in oracle.
> 
> this is a story that comes back on this list every few weeks or months
> and basically happens because there is a huge misunderstanding on what
> the OS filesystem cache provides single node etc etc, it takes time to
> explain and I think wehave in the past. could you go through the
> archives and look for earlier discussions on this ? 
> 
> there is nothing slow, what youa re doing is having a database run that
> has a lot of stuff cached in the OS itself on local fielsystem and then
> when you do that query on cfs or raw it has to go to disk, the rigth
> thing to do (should do) is give all that memory to oracle. then you will
> see the difference
> 
> again, it's not abug, don't think it's slow, just do the right thing.
> and look in archives for a pointer to the discussions
> 
> Wim
> 
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:39:33AM -0700, Varghese Abraham wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> >  we are using Red Hat 2.1 Kernel e38 along with MSA 1000.
> > ocfs version being used is
> > 
> > $ rpm -qa | grep ocfs
> > ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1
> > ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1
> > ocfs-support-1.0.10-1
> >  
> > 
> > Database Version is 9.2.0.5
> > 
> > 
> > However we find that the performance of the database on OCFS is too slow. even a select count(1) from all_tables takes like a while to complete.
> > 
> > We initially assumed RAC is the problem area.  ( Because with both nodes enabled we had terrible performance)
> > 
> > Hence we stopped one of the RAC Databases to test out the performance.
> > However even with one node the performance is real bad.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Any pointers on how to debug this problem.
> > 
> > 
> > R'gds
> > Varghese Abraham.
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