Re: [zfs-discuss] [perf-discuss] ZFS performance issue - READ is slow as hell...

2009-03-31 Thread Marion Hakanson
james.ma...@sun.com said: > I'm not yet sure what's broken here, but there's something pathologically > wrong with the IO rates to the device during the ZFS tests. In both cases, > the wait queue is getting backed up, with horrific wait queue latency > numbers. On the read side, I don't understand

Re: [zfs-discuss] [perf-discuss] ZFS performance issue - READ is slow as hell...

2009-03-30 Thread Jim Mauro
I don't understand why disabling ZFS prefetch solved this problem. The test case was a single threaded sequential write, followed by a single threaded sequential read. Anyone listening on ZFS have an explanation as to why disabling prefetch solved Roland's very poor bandwidth problem? My only th

Re: [zfs-discuss] [perf-discuss] ZFS performance issue - READ is slow as hell...

2009-03-30 Thread Jim Mauro
Cross posting to zfs-discuss. By my math, here's what you're getting; 4.6MB/sec on writes to ZFS. 2.2MB/sec on reads from ZFS. 90MB/sec on read from block device. What is c0t1d0 - I assume it's a hardware RAID LUN, but how many disks, and what type of LUN? What version of Solaris (cat /etc/re