Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Rune Tipsmark
Looking at the first link he clearly states that ZIL is written to in a round robin fashion, I was under the impression that 2 log devices would then be faster than 1…unless mirrored of course. If this is not true, what is the point of allowing more than 1 vdev as log device at all? How can I

[OmniOS-discuss] Is this ZFS bug?

2014-11-14 Thread Shvayakov A.
Hello, OmniOS v11 r151010 Can somebody help determine the cause of the growth of the file to this size 1.6P? Without reasons happened increasing file to unbelievably large size This is qcow2 image of the virtual machine. The KVM hypervisor. I copied normal file from a snapshot, but a few day

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Rune Tipsmark wrote: Looking at the first link he clearly states that ZIL is written to in a round robin fashion, I was under the impression that 2 log devices would then be faster than 1…unless mirrored of course. This could be a mistaken impression. The slog commits

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Rune Tipsmark
Well that sucks... I guess one more reason to move to NV-Dimms to replace slow SLC cards. Br, Rune -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 6:48 AM To: Rune Tipsmark Cc: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [Om

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Rune Tipsmark
Is there a way to stripe two block devices and use them as log? I tried following this one https://blogs.oracle.com/bilke/entry/raid_0_stripe_on_solaris But I cannot use the device in ZFS - getting the following error: cannot use '/dev/md/rdsk/zil1d0': must be a block device or regular file Br,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Rune Tipsmark
I get only about half the bandwidth with Sync=Always compared to Sync=Disabled. Using an SLC device that should perform better, its rated as 750 MB/sec, I only get something like 60% of that at best of times. If there is a way to stripe a ZIL it would be great. I have enough to mirror two stripe

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:06:04 + Rune Tipsmark wrote: > I get only about half the bandwidth with Sync=Always compared to > Sync=Disabled. > > Using an SLC device that should perform better, its rated as 750 MB/sec, I > only get something like 60% of that at best of times. If there is a way t

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:24 PM, Nicholas George wrote: > From what I understand, ZFS writes to the intent log in a single threaded > synchronous fashion. Adding three drives just means that the first block is > written to the first drive synchronously, then the second block to the second > drive

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

2014-11-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 14, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Rune Tipsmark wrote: > I get only about half the bandwidth with Sync=Always compared to > Sync=Disabled. > Using an SLC device that should perform better, its rated as 750 MB/sec, I > only get something like 60% of that at best of times. If there is a way to > str