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I was running out of space on /var so I moved my db dir to /usr and noticed a significate decrease in performance. In addition I noticed that performance is much slower as well under any Jailed systems, I'm assuming because they are also on /usr. It's all partitions on a single disk so it's not specific to any hd performance or anything. What are my solution options? Thanks!

Output of tunefs on /var

tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)                                disabled
tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N)                                   disabled
tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)                               disabled
tunefs: soft updates: (-n)                                 enabled
tunefs: gjournal: (-J)                                     disabled
tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  2048
tunefs: average file size: (-f)                            16384
tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)       64
tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             8%
tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time
tunefs: volume label: (-L)

I think my main concern is performance on my jails, with the only option being linking each one's /var onto the main /var further exacerbating my space issue.

fstab

# Device        Mountpoint  FStype  Options     Dump    Pass#
/dev/ad4s1b     none        swap    sw      0   0
/dev/ad4s1a     /       ufs rw      1   1
/dev/ad4s1e     /tmp        ufs rw      2   2
/dev/ad4s1f     /usr        ufs rw      2   2
/dev/ad4s1d     /var        ufs rw      2   2
/dev/acd0       /cdrom      cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
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How is your disk partitioned? If /var is closer to the centre of the platters than /usr, it will be quicker for the disk to perform seek operations under /var than under /usr; whether that alone is causing the performance loss, is debatable.

As for improving performance again, I'm not sure - is there anything else on /var you could move away to make room for your MySQL stuff to go back? Things like /var/db/pkg, /var/db/portsnap etc are good candidates here, since the tools that use them don't mind slow disk access times.

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  • It is the default FreeBSD partition configuration. I've moved everything back onto /var but am getting closer to filling it up after clearing out as much as possible (log, etc). I think my main concern is performance on my jails, with the only option being linking each one's /var onto the main /var further exacerbating my space issue. – franklin stine Mar 16 '12 at 20:38
  • Looks like you've gone through file system config with Chris S already. If no differences show up there, then I wonder if either reinstalling with a rearranged partitioning scheme and/or adding a new disk (preferably on a different controller) might be possibilities? Both are a lot of work up front, but depending on your use case, may be worth the hit. – D_Bye Mar 17 '12 at 11:32
  • Thanks, This is on a production server w/ a decent load, so I think my best option for now is to just add another disk and configure my partitions differently during install in the future. – franklin stine Mar 21 '12 at 07:29