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We have started seeing misaligned partitions on Linux guests runnning certain HDFS distributions. How these partitions became mis-aligned is a bit of a mystery, because the only way I know how to do this on Linux is to create a partition using old DOS format like this (using -c=dos and -u=cylinders)
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Often we are presented with a vCenter screenshot, and an observation that there are “high latency spikes”. In the example, the response time is indeed quite high – around 80ms.
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TL;DR Comparison of Paravirtual SCSI Vs Emulated SCSI in with measurements. PVSCSI gives measurably better response times at high load. During a performance debugging session, I noticed that the response time on two of the SCSI devices was much higher than the others (Linux host under vmware ESX). The difference was unexpected since all the devices […]
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Many storage devices/filesystems treat blocks containing nothing but zeros in a special way, often short-circuiting reads from the back-end. This is normally a good thing but this behavior can cause odd results when benchmarking. This typically comes up when testing against storage using raw devices that have been thin provisioned. In this example, I have several […]