Re: FileFallocate misbehaving on XFS

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Harris <harmic(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FileFallocate misbehaving on XFS
Date: 2024-12-16 14:53:42
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Hi,

On 2024-12-16 14:45:37 +0100, Jakub Wartak wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 12:50 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> An extended cycle of 80 backends copying into relations and occasionally
> > truncating them (to simulate the partitions being dropped and new ones
> > created). For this I ran a 4TB filesystem very close to fully filled
> > (peaking
> > at 99.998 % full).
> >
>
> I could only think of the question: how many files were involved there ?

I varied the number heavily. From dozens to 10s of thousands. No meaningful
difference.

> Well IMHO we are stuck till Michael provides some more data (patch outcome,
> bpf and maybe other hints and tests).

Yea.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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