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<h1 id="benchmarking">Benchmarking</h1>
<p>Filesystems are complicated. They do many things and many of those are
interconnected. Additionally, the OS, drivers, hardware, etc. can all
impact performance. Therefore, when benchmarking, it is <strong>necessary</strong>
that the test focuses as narrowly as possible.</p>
<p>For most throughput is the key benchmark. To test throughput <code>dd</code> is
useful but <strong>must</strong> be used with the correct settings in order to
ensure the filesystem or device is actually being tested. The OS can
and will cache data. Without forcing synchronous reads and writes
and/or disabling caching the values returned will not be
representative of the device's true performance.</p>
<p>When benchmarking through mergerfs ensure you only use 1 branch to
remove any possibility of the policies complicating the
situation. Benchmark the underlying filesystem first and then mount
mergerfs over it and test again. If you're experiencing speeds below
your expectation you will need to narrow down precisely which
component is leading to the slowdown. Preferably test the following in
the order listed (but not combined).</p>
<ol>
<li>Enable <code>nullrw</code> mode with <code>nullrw=true</code>. This will effectively make
   reads and writes no-ops. Removing the underlying device /
   filesystem from the equation. This will give us the top theoretical
   speeds.</li>
<li>Mount mergerfs over <code>tmpfs</code>. <code>tmpfs</code> is a RAM disk. Extremely high
   speed and very low latency. This is a more realistic best case
   scenario. Example: <code>mount -t tmpfs -o size=2G tmpfs /tmp/tmpfs</code></li>
<li>Mount mergerfs over a local device. NVMe, SSD, HDD, etc. If you
   have more than one I'd suggest testing each of them as drives
   and/or controllers (their drivers) could impact performance.</li>
<li>Finally, if you intend to use mergerfs with a network filesystem,
   either as the source of data or to combine with another through
   mergerfs, test each of those alone as above.</li>
</ol>
<p>Once you find the component which has the performance issue you can do
further testing with different options to see if they impact
performance. For reads and writes the most relevant would be:
<code>cache.files</code>, <code>async_read</code>. Less likely but relevant when using NFS
or with certain filesystems would be <code>security_capability</code>, <code>xattr</code>,
and <code>posix_acl</code>. If you find a specific system, device, filesystem,
controller, etc. that performs poorly contact trapexit so he may
investigate further.</p>
<p>Sometimes the problem is really the application accessing or writing
data through mergerfs. Some software use small buffer sizes which can
lead to more requests and therefore greater overhead. You can test
this out yourself by replacing <code>bs=1M</code> in the examples below with <code>ibs</code>
or <code>obs</code> and using a size of <code>512</code> instead of <code>1M</code>. In one example
test using <code>nullrw</code> the write speed dropped from 4.9GB/s to 69.7MB/s
when moving from <code>1M</code> to <code>512</code>. Similar results were had when testing
reads. Small writes overhead may be improved by leveraging a write
cache but in casual tests little gain was found. More tests will need
to be done before this feature would become available. If you have an
app that appears slow with mergerfs it could be due to this. Contact
trapexit so he may investigate further.</p>
<h3 id="write-benchmark">write benchmark</h3>
<div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-0-1"><a id="__codelineno-0-1" name="__codelineno-0-1" href="#__codelineno-0-1"></a>$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mergerfs/1GB.file bs=1M count=1024 oflag=nocache conv=fdatasync status=progress
</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="read-benchmark">read benchmark</h3>
<div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-1-1"><a id="__codelineno-1-1" name="__codelineno-1-1" href="#__codelineno-1-1"></a>$ dd if=/mnt/mergerfs/1GB.file of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 iflag=nocache conv=fdatasync status=progress
</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="other-benchmarks">other benchmarks</h3>
<p>If you are attempting to benchmark other behaviors you must ensure you
clear kernel caches before runs. In fact it would be a good deal to
run before the read and write benchmarks as well just in case.</p>
<div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-2-1"><a id="__codelineno-2-1" name="__codelineno-2-1" href="#__codelineno-2-1"></a>sync
</span><span id="__span-2-2"><a id="__codelineno-2-2" name="__codelineno-2-2" href="#__codelineno-2-2"></a>echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
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