Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 03:11 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] >> >> :-D I'm here to entertain since I have not been able to spring for a ssd >> for use as a slog. :-D > > LOL, you mean you have a HDD slog device? :-D > It's act

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] > > :-D I'm here to entertain since I have not been able to spring for a ssd > for use as a slog. :-D LOL, you mean you have a HDD slog device? :-D It's actually very surprising how well that works, especially if you have a hig

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, January 25, 2013 06:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: When you're doing async writes (or sync writes with ZIL disabled, which are in effect, async writes) then the HBA write-back actually hurts your performance a little bit. Like 5-10% or so. The conclusion to draw is:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Bentley, Dain
, 2013 5:18 PM To: Sašo Kiselkov; Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP > From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] > > On 01/24/2013 02:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > > > Based on my extensive wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] > > On 01/24/2013 02:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > > > Based on my extensive work benchmarking zfs systems, I can say this: The > default write performance on a plain old sas/sata card (without SSD) is > horrible by compari

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 02:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > Based on my extensive work benchmarking zfs systems, I can say this: The > default write performance on a plain old sas/sata card (without SSD) is > horrible by comparison to the following alternatives: > > You get a huge incre

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] > > 3ware did? I thought the tw driver only came out after it got bought by LSI? Sorry, I wasn't intending to draw a distinction between 3ware and LSI. > Until then, Areca was the only game in town but who uses hardware raid > a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Bentley, Dain
[openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP On Thursday, January 24, 2013 07:59 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Bentley, Dain [mailto:dbent...@nas.edu] >> >> I have perused the lists and saw this might be suppor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 07:59 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Bentley, Dain [mailto:dbent...@nas.edu] I have perused the lists and saw this might be support with OpenSolaris. It's not listed on the HCL on the Openindiana wiki but like I said, some OpenSolaris threads talk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Bentley, Dain [mailto:dbent...@nas.edu] > > I have perused the lists and saw this might be support with OpenSolaris. It's > not listed on the HCL on the Openindiana wiki but like I said, some > OpenSolaris threads talk about this controller being supported: > http://osdir.com/ml/os.solari

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-23 Thread Roel_D
ag 23 januari 2013 16:13 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP I have perused the lists and saw this might be support with OpenSolaris. It's not listed on the HCL on the Openindiana wiki but like I said, some OpenSolaris threads talk

[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-23 Thread Bentley, Dain
I have perused the lists and saw this might be support with OpenSolaris. It's not listed on the HCL on the Openindiana wiki but like I said, some OpenSolaris threads talk about this controller being supported: http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-07/msg00022.html Has anyone use