Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?
Thanks Nathan, I want to test the underlying performance, of course the problem is I want to test the 16 or so disks in the stripe, rather than individual devices. Thanks Rob On 28/01/2009 22:23, Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: Also - My experience with a very small ARC is that your performance will stink. ZFS is an advanced filesystem that IMO makes some assumptions about capability and capacity of current hardware. If you don't give what it's expecting, your results may be equally unexpected. If you are keen to test the *actual* disk performance, you should just use the underlying disk device like /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Beware, however, that any writes to these devices will indeed result in the loss of the data on those devices, zpools or other. Cheers. Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: Rob Brown wrote: Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. No, not really the same concept, which is why Roch wrote http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/zfs_and_directio I saw the following two options on a nevada box which presumably control it: primarycache secondarycache Yes, to some degree this offers some capability. But I don't believe they are in any release of Solaris 10. -- richard But I¹m running Solaris 10U4 which doesn¹t have them -can I disable it? Many thanks Rob *|* *Robert Brown - **ioko *Professional Services *| | **Mobile:* +44 (0)7769 711 885 *| * ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- // // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com // // Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869-6255 // // Sun Microsystems Fax:+61 3 9869-6288 // // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road Mobile: 0419 305 456// // Melbourne 3004 VictoriaAustralia // // | Robert Brown - ioko Professional Services | | Mobile: +44 (0)7769 711 885 | ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?
Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. I saw the following two options on a nevada box which presumably control it: primarycache secondarycache But I¹m running Solaris 10U4 which doesn¹t have them -can I disable it? Many thanks Rob | Robert Brown - ioko Professional Services | | Mobile: +44 (0)7769 711 885 | ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?
Rob Brown wrote: Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. No, not really the same concept, which is why Roch wrote http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/zfs_and_directio I saw the following two options on a nevada box which presumably control it: primarycache secondarycache Yes, to some degree this offers some capability. But I don't believe they are in any release of Solaris 10. -- richard But I’m running Solaris 10U4 which doesn’t have them -can I disable it? Many thanks Rob *|* *Robert Brown - **ioko *Professional Services *| | **Mobile:* +44 (0)7769 711 885 *| * ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?
Also - My experience with a very small ARC is that your performance will stink. ZFS is an advanced filesystem that IMO makes some assumptions about capability and capacity of current hardware. If you don't give what it's expecting, your results may be equally unexpected. If you are keen to test the *actual* disk performance, you should just use the underlying disk device like /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Beware, however, that any writes to these devices will indeed result in the loss of the data on those devices, zpools or other. Cheers. Nathan. Richard Elling wrote: Rob Brown wrote: Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. No, not really the same concept, which is why Roch wrote http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/zfs_and_directio I saw the following two options on a nevada box which presumably control it: primarycache secondarycache Yes, to some degree this offers some capability. But I don't believe they are in any release of Solaris 10. -- richard But I’m running Solaris 10U4 which doesn’t have them -can I disable it? Many thanks Rob *|* *Robert Brown - **ioko *Professional Services *| | **Mobile:* +44 (0)7769 711 885 *| * ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- // // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com // // Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869-6255 // // Sun Microsystems Fax:+61 3 9869-6288 // // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road Mobile: 0419 305 456// // Melbourne 3004 VictoriaAustralia // // ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
