Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Elling
more comments... On May 1, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:18:18AM -0700, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a >>> feel for baseline performance. >> >

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 1 May 2012, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Testing multi-threaded synchronous writes with IOzone might actually mean something if it is representative of your work-load. Sounds like IOzone may not be my best option here (though it does produce pretty graphs). bonnie++ actually gave me more rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Gary wrote: > The idea of benchmarking -- IMHO -- is to vaguely attempt to reproduce > real world loads. Obviously, this is an imperfect science but if > you're going to be writing a lot of small files (e.g. NNTP or email > servers used to be a good real world exam

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Gary
On 5/1/12, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > The problem is this box has 144GB of memory. If I go with a 16GB file > size (which I did), then memory and caching influences the results > pretty severely (I get around 3GB/sec for writes!). The idea of benchmarking -- IMHO -- is to vaguely attempt to reprodu

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:18:18AM -0700, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a > > feel for baseline performance. > > Unfortunately, benchmarking with IOzone is a very poor indicator of > wha

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 03:21:05AM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > On May 1, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > Throughput: > >iozone -m -t 8 -T -r 128k -o -s 36G -R -b bigfile.xls > > > > IOPS: > >iozone -O -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -e -+n -r 128K -s 288G > iops.txt > > Do you expect to be r

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Re: [zfs-discuss] [developer] current status of SAM-QFS?

2012-05-01 Thread Deepak Honnalli
5.3 is released, not much of an idea about the 5.4 schedule. On Monday 30 April 2012 08:30 AM, Fred Liu wrote: The subject says it all. --- illumos-developer Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/m

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a feel for baseline performance. Unfortunately, benchmarking with IOzone is a very poor indicator of what performance will be like during normal use. Forcing the system to behave lik

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Kraus
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a > feel for baseline performance. If you have compression turned on (and I highly recommend turning it on if you have the CPU power to handle it), the IOzone data will

Re: [zfs-discuss] [developer] Setting default user/group quotas[usage accounting]?

2012-05-01 Thread Matthew Ahrens
2012/4/25 Richard Elling : > On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Eric Schrock wrote: > > ZFS will always track per-user usage information even in the absence of > quotas. See the the zfs 'userused@' properties and 'zfs userspace' command. > > > tip: zfs get -H -o value -p userused@username filesystem > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 1, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Throughput: >iozone -m -t 8 -T -r 128k -o -s 36G -R -b bigfile.xls > > IOPS: >iozone -O -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -e -+n -r 128K -s 288G > iops.txt Do you expect to be reading or writing 36 or 288Gb files very often on this array? The largest file

Re: [zfs-discuss] cluster vs nfs

2012-05-01 Thread Maurice R Volaski
Instead we've switched to Linux and DRBD. And if that doesn't get me sympathy I don't know what will. SvSAN does something similar and it does it rather well, I think. http://www.stormagic.com/SvSAN.php ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] [developer] Setting default user/group quotas[usage accounting]?

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Fred Liu wrote: > > >On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Fred Liu wrote: > > >“zfs 'userused@' properties” and “'zfs userspace' command” are good enough > >to gather usage statistics. > >I think I mix that with NetApp. If my memory is correct, we have to set > >quotas

Re: [zfs-discuss] current status of SAM-QFS?

2012-05-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 04/30/12 04:00, Fred Liu wrote: The subject says it all. Still a fully supported product from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/storage-software/qfs-software/overview/index.html -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss m

[zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
I'm trying to run some IOzone benchmarking on a new system to get a feel for baseline performance. Unfortunately, the system has a lot of memory (144GB), but I have some time so am approaching my runs as follows: Throughput: iozone -m -t 8 -T -r 128k -o -s 36G -R -b bigfile.xls IOPS: ioz

Re: [zfs-discuss] [developer] Setting default user/group quotas[usage accounting]?

2012-05-01 Thread Fred Liu
>On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Fred Liu wrote: >"zfs 'userused@' properties" and "'zfs userspace' command" are good enough to >gather usage statistics. >I think I mix that with NetApp. If my memory is correct, we have to set quotas >to get usage statistics under DataOnTAP. >Further, if we can

[zfs-discuss] current status of SAM-QFS?

2012-05-01 Thread Fred Liu
The subject says it all. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss