Re: Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-08 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
On 08/02/2021 11:21, Vladilen Kozin wrote: These are excellent pointers and get me on my way! Thank you very much Walter. Invaluable. As a general note perhaps you may be interested in the stats(7) manual page. And the dwatch utility. ___ freebsd-p

Re: Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-08 Thread Vladilen Kozin
These are excellent pointers and get me on my way! Thank you very much Walter. Invaluable. On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 15:55, Walter von Entferndt wrote: > > At Sonntag, 7. Februar 2021, 13:00:04 CET Vladilen Kozin > wrote: > > [1 dedicated disk/ufs per thread, no redundency,...] > > RTFM tuning(7), z

Re: Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-07 Thread mike tancsa
On 2/7/2021 10:50 AM, Walter von Entferndt wrote: > > - Inserting an I/O scheduler might improve performance, too (gsched(8)). > Yes, UFS is likely faster than ZFS on such a setup, but ZFS offers many > advantages in terms of administration, fault tolerance & reliability. Especially if the data i

Re: Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-07 Thread Walter von Entferndt
At Sonntag, 7. Februar 2021, 13:00:04 CET Vladilen Kozin wrote: > [1 dedicated disk/ufs per thread, no redundency,...] RTFM tuning(7), zpool(8), zfs(8), gjournal(8), gstripe(8), gsched(8). - Obviously striping the disks will be beneficial, but it seems you don't want that (not enough disks?)

Tuning and monitoring write intensive server

2021-02-06 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Hello list. I have a rather niche and specific task I'm trying to tune for my recently acquired homelab server. Easily parallelized, extremely disk IO (write) intensive. If having read this you think it belongs in freebsd-questions, kindly tell me so. I've not used FreeBSD for 20 years, so I'm no