fyi, there is an interesting note on disabling the write cache here:
https://yourcmc.ru/wiki/index.php?title=Ceph_performance&mobileaction=t…
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:45 AM Benoît Knecht <bknecht(a)protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> Igor Fedotov wrote:
> > for the sake of completeness one more experiment please if possible:
> >
> > turn off write cache for HGST drives and measure commit latency once again.
>
> I just did the same experiment with HGST drives, and disabling the write cache
> on those drives brought the latency down from about 7.5ms to about 4ms.
>
> So it seems disabling the write cache across the board would be advisable in
> our case. Is it recommended in general, or specifically when the DB+WAL is on
> the same hard drive?
>
> Stefan, Mark, are you disabling the write cache on your HDDs by default?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ben
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