Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-04 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland Out of interest have you tried limiting the number of queues? If not give it a try see if it

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Jack Vogel
ix is just the device name, it is using the ixgbe driver. The driver should print some kind of banner when it loads, what version of the OS and driver are you using?? I have little experience testing nfs or samba so I am not sure right off what might be the problem. Jack On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 2, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io the card has a 3 meter twinax cable from cisco connected to it, going through a fujitsu switch. We have tweaked various networking, and kernel

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 2.50 MByte

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: ix is just the device name, it is using the ixgbe driver. The driver should print some kind of banner when it loads, what version of the OS and driver are you using?? I have little experience testing nfs or samba so I am not

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org mailto:lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org mailto:lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: Ive got a high

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com To: Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org Cc: n...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.orgwrote

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.ukwrote: - Original Message - From: Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com To: Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org Cc: n...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
:06 AM Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org mailto:lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/13 14:28

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org Cc: n...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/04/13 13:06, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org mailto:lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 07/04/13 13:06, Outback Dingo wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org mailto:lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Wed, Jul 3,

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. please file a bug if hz is affecting your performance. Ew. -adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Lawrence Stewart lstew...@freebsd.org wrote: - I recall some advice that zpool's should not have more than about 8 or 10 disks in them, and you should instead create multiple zpools if you have more disks. Perhaps investigate the source of that rumour and if

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article cage5ycpojnenzw+6sn9wyee5ruzpuicke8db8r0zgrjgbj2...@mail.gmail.com, Peter Wemm quotes some advice about ZFS filesystem vdev layout: 1. Virtual Devices Determine IOPS IOPS (I/O per second) are mostly a factor of the number of virtual devices (vdevs) in a zpool. They are not a factor of

Terrible ix performance

2013-07-02 Thread Outback Dingo
Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 2.50 MByte (WARNING: requested 2.50 MByte)