Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone else comes up with quicker confirmation please post. We applied that patch (for x86) yesterday on our machines during maintenance. Delivery times are much better and even on a busy system the filebench varmail pattern gives 10ms for fsync().

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-28 Thread Vincent Fox
Pascal Gienger wrote: > For x86 the patch will have id 127729-07. For SPARC it will have > the major number 127728. > My esteemed colleague Nick Dugan, ran some tests against this patch and according to the results it gives the desired results. I expect during our next monthly maintenance cy

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Gienger
Pascal Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just opened a case at our Sun Representative so we hope to get this zfs > patch as well. > filebench varmail leaves us with > 1,5 seconds (!) for an fsync(), which > is really a big performance hit. FYI: I just got a reply from Sun Support in Germany

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people have asked for the IDR number from Sun that gave > us the performance optimizations we needed. > > Management says the agreement for the IDR we got prohibits this. I just opened a case at our Sun Representative so we hope to get this zfs pa

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-25 Thread Vincent Fox
Several people have asked for the IDR number from Sun that gave us the performance optimizations we needed. Management says the agreement for the IDR we got prohibits this. However this forum thread from BEFORE the agreement should point you in the right direction: http://opensolaris.org/jive/th

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:50:09 -0800, "Vincent Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So for those of you who recall back that far. > > UC Davis switched to Cyrus and as soon as fall quarter started > and students started hitting our servers hard, they collapsed. > Load would go up to what SEEMED to

Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-19 Thread Vincent Fox
So for those of you who recall back that far. UC Davis switched to Cyrus and as soon as fall quarter started and students started hitting our servers hard, they collapsed. Load would go up to what SEEMED to be (for a 32-core T2000) a moderate value of 5+ and then performance would fall off a c