Re: [zfs-discuss] Experiences with 10.000+ filesystems

2011-05-31 Thread Khushil Dep
The adage that I adhere to with ZFS features is just because you can doesn't mean you should!. I would suspect that with that many filesystems the normal zfs-tools would also take an inordinate length of time to complete their operations - scale according to size. Generally snapshots are quick

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Khushil Dep
I'd back that. X25E's are great but also look at the STECH ZeusIOPS as well as the new Intel's. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Windows - Linux - Solaris - ZFS - XenServer - FreeBSD - C/C++ - PHP/Perl - LAMP - Nexenta - Development - Consulting Contracting http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very bad ZFS write performance. Ok Read.

2011-02-15 Thread Khushil Dep
Could you not also pin process' to cores, preventing switching should help too? I've done this for performance reasons before on a 24 core Linux box Sent from my HTC Desire On 16 Feb 2011 05:12, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:46 PM, ian W wrote: Thanks..

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-31 Thread Khushil Dep
You should also check out VA Technologies ( http://www.va-technologies.com/servicesStorage.php) in the UK which supply a range of JBOD's. I've used this is very large deployments with no JBOD related failures to-date. Interestingly the laso list co-raid boxes. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-06 Thread Khushil Dep
. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Windows - Linux - Solaris - ZFS - Nexenta - Development - Consulting Contracting http://www.khushil.com/ - http://www.facebook.com/GlobalOverlord On 6 January 2011 00:14, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-06 Thread Khushil Dep
for certain solutions over others. My 2p. YMMV. *goes off to collect cheque from Nexenta* ;-) --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Windows - Linux - Solaris - ZFS - Nexenta - Development - Consulting Contracting http://www.khushil.com/ - http://www.facebook.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-05 Thread Khushil Dep
We do have a major commercial interest - Nexenta. It's been quiet but I do look forward to seeing something come out of that stable this year? :-) --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 5 January 2011 14:34, Edward Ned

Re: [zfs-discuss] Long resilver time

2010-12-26 Thread Khushil Dep
Do you have SSD in? Which ones and any errors on those? On 26 Dec 2010 13:35, Jackson Wang jcw...@infowize.com.tw wrote: Dear Richard, Thanks for your reply. Actually there is NO any other disk/controlller fault in this system. An engineer of NexentaStor, Andrew, just add a line in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5 SSD for ZIL

2010-12-25 Thread Khushil Dep
Friends don't let friends disable the ZIL - right Richard? :-) On 24 Dec 2010 20:34, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for 3.5 SSD for ZIL

2010-12-22 Thread Khushil Dep
We've always bought 2.5 and adapters for the super-micro cradles - works well, no issues to report here. Normally Intel's or Samsung though we also use STECH. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 22 December 2010 10:36

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faulted SSDs

2010-12-20 Thread Khushil Dep
Check the dmesg and system logs for any output concerning those devices re-seat one then the other just in case too. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 20 December 2010 13:10, Paul Piscuc paul.pis...@sinergetic.ro wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing log devices takes ages

2010-11-19 Thread Khushil Dep
I'm not sure that leaving the ZIL enabled whilst replacing the log devices is a good idea? Also - I had no idea Elvis was coming back tomorrow! Sweet. ;-) --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 19 November 2010 14:57, Bryan

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Sudden decrease in write performance

2010-11-15 Thread Khushil Dep
Set your txg_synctime_ms to 0x3000 and retest please? On 15 Nov 2010 23:23, Louis carreir...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all1 Recently I've decided to implement OpenSolaris as a target for BackupExec. The server I've converted into a Storage Appliance is an IBM x3650 M2 w/ ~4TB of on board storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Sudden decrease in write performance

2010-11-15 Thread Khushil Dep
12288 ms. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Khushil Dep khushil@gmail.com wrote: Set your txg_synct... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Sudden decrease in write performance

2010-11-15 Thread Khushil Dep
Points to check are iostat,fsstat, zilstat, mpstat, prstat. Check for sw interrupt sharing, disable ohci. On 16 Nov 2010 00:27, Khushil Dep khushil@gmail.com wrote: That controls zfs breathing, I'm on a phone writing this so u hope you won't mind me pointing you to listware.net/201005

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Sudden decrease in write performancep

2010-11-15 Thread Khushil Dep
working remotely). I do notice that when the ARC size reaches capacity, that's when things slow down. Also, it never appears to drop after I kill the IO. If I stop all IO, arcstat shows all numbers but the arcsz drop. Should arcsz drop at all? On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Khushil Dep khushil

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administation Concole

2010-11-13 Thread Khushil Dep
Think those might have been the thumper screen shots? Take a look at nexentastor On 13 Nov 2010 20:12, Brad Henderson b...@cybernetiksolutions.com wrote: I am new to OpenSolaris and I have been reading about and seeing screenshots of the ZFS Administration Console. I have been looking at the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administation Concole

2010-11-13 Thread Khushil Dep
Wait I thought the x4/x7 was the thumper series? On 13 Nov 2010 21:54, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 11/13/2010 1:06 PM, Khushil Dep wrote: Think those might have been the thumper screen shots? Take a look at nexentastor On 13 Nov 2010 20:12, Brad Henderson b

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administation Concole

2010-11-13 Thread Khushil Dep
Ok so what range was the thumper? On 13 Nov 2010 22:00, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 11/13/2010 1:06 PM, Khushil Dep wrote: Think those might have been the thumper screen shots? Take a look at nexentastor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administation Concole

2010-11-13 Thread Khushil Dep
Now I feel stupid lol. Thanks for the clarification! On 13 Nov 2010 22:30, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 11/13/2010 1:56 PM, Khushil Dep wrote: Wait I thought the x4/x7 was the thumper series? Nope. Thumper is specifically the codename for the X4500. ONLY the x4500

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-11-11 Thread Khushil Dep
I would also add that you should try the NexentaStor Enterprise demo - fully functional for 45 days. If you find a partner they will most likely be able to provide you a managed trial. I'd be interested to hear what parts of the GUI didn't work for you. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import panics

2010-11-11 Thread Khushil Dep
Hi, # savecore -vf vmdump.0 This should produce two files: unix.0 and vmcore.0 Now we use mdb on these as follows: # mdb unix.0 vmcore.0 Now when presented with the '' prompt, type ::status and send us all the output please? --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-09 Thread Khushil Dep
I think you maybe wanting the same kind of thing that NexentaStor does when it upgrade - takes snapshot and marks it a checkpoint in case the upgrade fails - right? I think you may have to snap then clone from that and use beadm thought it's something you should play with... --- W. A. Khushil Dep

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Khushil Dep
Can you send output of iostat -xCzn as well as fmadm faulty please? Is. This an E2 chassis? Are you using interposers? On 6 Nov 2010 18:28, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.com wrote: My setup: A SuperMicro 24-drive chassis with Intel dual-processor motherboard, three LSI SAS3081E controllers,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Khushil Dep
Sorry u meant iostat -En I'm looking for errors On 6 Nov 2010 18:56, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.com wrote: On 11/6/10 Nov 6, 1:35 PM, Khushil Dep khushil@gmail.com wrote: Is this an E2 chassis? Are you using interposers? No, it¹s an SC846A chassis. There are no interposers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Khushil Dep
it was connected to is on the blink. Restore from backup might be inevitable unless your snapping and auto syncing to another system? On 6 Nov 2010 19:25, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.com wrote: On 11/6/10 Nov 6, 2:21 PM, Khushil Dep khushil@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I meant iostat -En

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apparent SAS HBA failure-- now what?

2010-11-06 Thread Khushil Dep
The fmdump will let you get the serial of one disk and id the controller its on so you can swap it out and check. On 6 Nov 2010 19:45, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.com wrote: On 11/6/10 Nov 6, 2:35 PM, Khushil Dep khushil@gmail.com wrote: Similar to what I've seen... It's been up

Re: [zfs-discuss] using ZFS on new system

2010-11-05 Thread Khushil Dep
How is your current system setup as like Chris? What's the config of the new system? sperate disk array and head nodes or all in one boxes? --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 5 November 2010 13:15, Sriram Narayanan sri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Khushil Dep
If you do a dd to the storage from the heads do you still get the same issues? On 31 Oct 2010 12:40, Ian D rewar...@hotmail.com wrote: I get that multi-cores doesn't necessarily better performances, but I doubt that both the latest AMD CPUs (the Magny-Cours) and the latest Intel CPUs (the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Khushil Dep
Check your TXG settings, it could be a timing issue, nagles issue, also TCP buffer issue. Check setup system properties. On 1 Nov 2010 19:36, SR rraj...@gmail.com wrote: What if you connect locally via NFS or iscsi? SR -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-10-30 Thread Khushil Dep
We had the same issue with a 24 core box a while ago. Check your l2 cache hits and misses. Sometimes more cores does not mean more performance dtrace is your friend! On 30 Oct 2010 14:12, zfs user zf...@itsbeen.sent.com wrote: Here is a total guess - but what if it has to do with zfs processing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-10-30 Thread Khushil Dep
If you take a look at http://www.brendangregg.com/cachekit.html you will see some DTrace yummyness which should let you tell... --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 30 October 2010 15:49, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] When `zpool status' reports bad news

2010-10-21 Thread Khushil Dep
Could you show us 'iostat -En' please? On 21 Oct 2010 13:31, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com writes: On 10/21/10 03:47 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: build 133 zpool version 22 I'm getting: zpool status: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM