2 Replies Latest reply on Jul 18, 2012 9:03 AM by jhalliday

    Very high disc load

    michal.warecki

      Hi all,

       

      We observed a very high load on the hard disk while executing XA transactions, probably in the directory:

      jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/standalone/data/tx-object-store/ShadowNoFileLockStore/defaultStore/StateManager/BasicAction/TwoPhaseCoordinator/AtomicAction/

       

      It is about 60 Mb/s (!!) when 150/s distributed transaction are performed. Each distributed transaction includes 2 XA resources: JMS (HornetQ with persistence) and database (MySQL with JPA/Hibernate).

      Disc space is not growing but we are worried about the delay in accessing the disc.

       

      Is this situation is normal? Is there anything I can do with it?

        • 1. Re: Very high disc load
          ctomc

          Hi,

           

          yes it looks normal-ish  

           

          but it all depends on what are your transactional objects, aka how much data is part of every transaction.

           

          Given how many transactions you have that makes about 400Kb/transaction which is not that much.

          so basicly, if possbile lover the amount of data that participates in transaction or get a faster hard drive

           

          for more info on how transaction service works or how to tune it, probably guys from transaction team can help much better here...

           

           

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          tomaz

          • 2. Re: Very high disc load
            jhalliday

            A JTA tx log record is in the region of 600 bytes. On HDD you'll hit a limit on the number of syncs the drive can handle before you saturate its bandwidth. With SSD or the HornetQ journal based store different limits may apply.

             

            Note that depending on the filesystem implementation the fs barriers and journaling code may cause the entire write queue for the fs to be flushed on sync, rather than just the log file data. Put the tx log on a dedicated filesystem and measure the traffic for that fs to ensure you're seeing only tx related load.