Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2009-01-29 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Brent Jones wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote: ... The issue I am seeing, is that for certain file types, the FreeBSD NFS client will either issue an ASYNC write, or an FSYNC. However, NFSv3 and v4 both support "safe" ASYNC writes in the TCP vers

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2009-01-29 Thread Brent Jones
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote: > I'm reviving this, as I too am seeing something eerily similar. I have > made my own thread under freebsd-stable, so I will hopefully move that > discussion to this list. > > I believe we are seeing performance problems when the FreeBSD NFS >

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2009-01-28 Thread Brent Jones
I'm reviving this, as I too am seeing something eerily similar. I have made my own thread under freebsd-stable, so I will hopefully move that discussion to this list. I believe we are seeing performance problems when the FreeBSD NFS client issues FSYNC NFS instead of ASYNC, sending performance to

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning (Paul Patterson)

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Patterson
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Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning (Paul Patterson)

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Patterson
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Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning (Paul Patterson)

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Patterson
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Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2008-12-21 Thread Paul Patterson
It makes it real hard for the thread have integrity. (Heck, many of you are interested in the results. :-) ) P. From: Paul Patterson To: Paul Patterson ; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:59:54 PM Subject: Re: ZFS, N

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning (Paul Patterson)

2008-12-20 Thread Michelle Li
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Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Patterson
8 1:03:14 PM Subject: Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning Hello all, I guess I've got to send this as I've already had about 5 responses claiming the same thing. This is not a disk bottleneck. The ZFS partition is capable of performing at the theoretical max of the drives. The machine is

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Patterson
elow and see if there's anything glaring However, the lack of consistency shows something is wrong network wise. P. From: Paul Patterson To: Paul Patterson ; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:47:59 AM Subject: Re: ZFS, N

Re: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Patterson
erson To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:04:37 PM Subject: ZFS, NFS and Network tuning Hi, I just set up my first machine with ZFS. (First, ZFS is nothing short of amazing) I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 as an NFS server with ZFS striped across two volum

ZFS, NFS and Network tuning

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Patterson
Hi, I just set up my first machine with ZFS. (First, ZFS is nothing short of amazing) I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 as an NFS server with ZFS striped across two volumes (just testing throughput for now.) Anyhow, I was benching this box, 4GB or RAM, the volume is on 2x146 GB SAS 10K rpm drives