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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: --batch-size and --jobs combination
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:13:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210729211321.GA23521@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729202836.7qdwxojjel6jmxh6@nitro.local>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Is there any specific logic for mixing --batch-size and --jobs? On a system
> with plenty of CPUs and lots of RAM, does it make sense to have more --jobs,
> larger --batch-size, or some balance of both?

jobs will be bound by I/O capability for your case.  SATA-2 vs
SATA-3 vs NVME will have a notable difference, as does the
quality of the device (MLC, TLC, QLC; cache/controller).

Xapian seems to do better with bigger batch-sizes up to a point.
I'm not sure I have enough RAM to accurately test >8m batch
sizes (since we also need to account for kernel caching).

batch-size * (jobs - 1) = rough total batch size

If it's the initial index creation, I would definitely use
--no-fsync, too.  Perhaps that should be the default for new
indices.

Also note: the recent RFC for --sequential-commit doesn't seem to
be working out performance-wise on my SATA-2 system; but I'm also
not sure about SSD life/degradation.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-29 20:28 --batch-size and --jobs combination Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-07-29 21:13 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-07-29 21:24   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-07-29 22:06     ` Eric Wong
2021-08-01 20:40       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-08-05 11:05         ` Eric Wong
2021-08-05 20:59           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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