Re: [zfs-discuss] making sense of arcstat.pl output

2010-10-01 Thread przemolicc
Hello, I have the follwowing message: # ./arcstat.pl 1 time read miss miss% dmis dm% pmis pm% mmis mm% arcsz c Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at ./arcstat.pl line 262. Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at ./arcstat.pl line 263. Use of uninitialized value in d

Re: [zfs-discuss] repost - high read iops

2009-12-29 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:40:03PM -0800, Brad wrote: > "This doesn't make sense to me. You've got 32 GB, why not use it? > Artificially limiting the memory use to 20 GB seems like a waste of > good money." > > I'm having a hard time convincing the dbas to increase the size of the SGA to > 20GB b

Re: [zfs-discuss] new logbias property

2009-08-11 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:42:31AM -0700, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hi, > > I like the new feature but I was thinking that maybe the keywords being used > should be different? > > Currently it is: > > # zfs set logbias=latency {dataset} > # zfs set logbias=throughput {dataset} > > Maybe it wou

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs compression - btrfs compression

2008-11-03 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:33:52PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > Now, the good filter could be to use MAGIC numbers within files or > > approach btrfs come up with, or maybe even both combined. > > You are suggesting that ZFS should detect a GIF or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automatic removal of old snapshots

2008-09-25 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:30:04AM +0100, Tim Foster wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Nils Goroll wrote: > > > Storage Checkpoints in Veritas software has this feature (removing > > the oldest checkpoint in case of 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Automatic removal of old snapshots

2008-09-25 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Nils Goroll wrote: > > Before re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have any nice shell script to do > > this > > kind of thing (to be executed from cron)? > > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_10 > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/z

[zfs-discuss] vxfs vs ufs vs zfs

2008-02-17 Thread przemolicc
Hello, I have just done comparison of all the above filesystems using the latest filebench. If you are interested: http://przemol.blogspot.com/2008/02/zfs-vs-vxfs-vs-ufs-on-x4500-thumper.html Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/

Re: [zfs-discuss] filebench for Solaris 10?

2008-02-17 Thread przemolicc
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:26:27PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Some of us are still using Solaris 10 since it is the version of > Solaris released and supported by Sun. The 'filebench' software from > SourceForge does not seem to install or work on Solaris 10. > [...] I am not sure if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which DTrace provider to use

2008-02-14 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:21:44PM -0800, Jonathan Loran wrote: > > Hi List, > > I'm wondering if one of you expert DTrace guru's can help me. I want to > write a DTrace script to print out a a histogram of how long IO requests > sit in the service queue. I can output the results with the qua

[zfs-discuss] Ditto blocks in S10U4 ?

2008-01-22 Thread przemolicc
bash-3.00# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 16 August 2007 (with all the latest patches)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write time performance question

2007-12-07 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:40:13AM -0800, eric kustarz wrote: > > [...] > > przemol, did you set the recordsize to 8KB? Yes. It is mentioned in the legend on the right side of the chart. > What are the server's specs? (memory, CPU) Memory: 24GB CPU:8 x UltraSPARC-III+ 900 MHz > Which vers

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write time performance question

2007-12-06 Thread przemolicc
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:02:43PM -0800, Tim Cook wrote: > what firmware revision are you at? Revision: 415G Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ -- A co by bylo, gdybys to TY rzadzil? Kliknij

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write time performance question

2007-12-03 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:05:13PM -0800, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > > I'd recommend running filebench for filesystem benchmarks, and see what > the results are: > > http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench > > Filebench is able to purge the ZFS cache (expor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Direct I/O ability with zfs?

2007-10-02 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:20:24PM -0600, eric kustarz wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:11 PM, David Runyon wrote: > > > We are using MySQL, and love the idea of using zfs for this. We > > are used to using Direct I/O to bypass file system caching (let the > > DB do this). Does this exist fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance Tuning - ZFS, Oracle and T2000

2007-08-20 Thread przemolicc
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:32:02AM +0200, Louwtjie Burger wrote: > http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_and_databases > > http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/parameters.jsp > > http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/tnb/applications_oracle.jsp > > Be careful with long running single qu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and VXVM/VXFS

2007-07-04 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:30:32PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Magesh R wrote: > > We are looking at the alternatives to VXVM/VXFS. One of the feature > > which we liked in Veritas, apart from the obvious ones is the > > ability to call the disks by name and group them in to a disk group. > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Layout for multiple large streaming writes.

2007-03-12 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:34:22AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello przemolicc, > > Monday, March 12, 2007, 8:50:57 AM, you wrote: > > ppf> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> Hello Carisdad, > >> > >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Layout for multiple large streaming writes.

2007-03-11 Thread przemolicc
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Carisdad, > > Friday, March 9, 2007, 7:05:02 PM, you wrote: > > C> I have a setup with a T2000 SAN attached to 90 500GB SATA drives > C> presented as individual luns to the host. We will be sending mostly > C> large stre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-02-27 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:29:04PM +1100, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 27/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > >> Hi Przemol, > >> > >> I think Casper had a good point bringing up the data integrity > >> features

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-02-27 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > Hi Przemol, > > I think Casper had a good point bringing up the data integrity > features when using ZFS for RAID. Big companies do a lot of things > "just because that's the certified way" that end up biting them in the > rea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-02-22 Thread przemolicc
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:43:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I cannot let you say that. > >Here in my company we are very interested in ZFS, but we do not care > >about the RAID/mirror features, because we already have a SAN with > >RAID-5 disks, and dual fabric connection to the hosts.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0800, Jeremy Teo wrote: > On the issue of the ability to remove a device from a zpool, how > useful/pressing is this feature? Or is this more along the line of > "nice to have"? If you think "remove a device from a zpool" = "to shrink a pool" then it is really u

[zfs-discuss] Re: !

2006-12-22 Thread przemolicc
Ulrich, in his e-mail Robert mentioned _two_ things regarding ZFS: [1] ability to detect errors (checksums) [2] using ZFS didn't caused data lost so far I completely agree that [1] is wonderful and this is huge advantage. And you also underlined [1] in you e-mail ! The _only_ thing I mentioned is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Difference between ZFS and UFS with one LUN from a SAN

2006-12-22 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:45:34PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Shawn, > > Thursday, December 21, 2006, 4:28:39 PM, you wrote: > > SJ> All, > > SJ> I understand that ZFS gives you more error correction when using > SJ> two LUNS from a SAN. But, does it provide you with less features >

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-09 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > Also, "save-early-save-often" results in a version explosion, as does > auto-save in the app. While this may indeed mean that you have all of > your changes around, figuring out which version has them can be > massively time-consu

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-09 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:57:36AM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:14:23AM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > >wrote: > >>But I would dearly like to have a versioning capability. > > > >Me too. > >Example (real life scenario): there is a samb

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-06 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:14:23AM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > But I would dearly like to have a versioning capability. Me too. Example (real life scenario): there is a samba server for about 200 concurrent connected users. They keep mainly doc/xls files on the server. From tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Info on OLTP Perf

2006-09-25 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:37:23AM -0700, Neelakanth Nadgir wrote: > We did an experiment where we placed the logs on UFS+DIO and the > rest on ZFS. This was a write heavy benchmark. We did not see > much gain in performance by doing that (around 5%). I suspect > you would be willing to trade 5% fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Info on OLTP Perf

2006-09-25 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:38:05PM +0200, Roch wrote: > > > http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/zfs_and_oltp After reading this page and taking into consideration my (not so big) knowledge of ZFS it came to my mind that putting e.g. Oracle on both UFS+DIO _and_ ZFS would be the best solution _

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat

2006-09-18 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Krzys wrote: > Hello folks, is there any way to get timestamps when doing "zpool iostat 1" > for example? > > Well I did run zpool iostat 60 starting last night and I got some loads > indicating along the way but without a time stamps I cant figure out a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320 - offtopic

2006-09-08 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:41:58AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Richard, when I talk about cheap JBOD I think about home users/small > >servers/small companies. I guess you can sell 100 X4500 and at the same > >time 1000 (or even more) cheap JBODs to the small compani

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320 - offtopic

2006-09-08 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:14:20PM -0700, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun > >doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And > >don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are ho

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320 - offtopic

2006-09-04 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:59:53AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > My question is how efficient will ZFS be, given that > > it will be layered on top of the hardware RAID and > > write cache? > > ZFS delivers best performance when used standalone, directly on entire disks. > By using ZFS on top of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: zpool status panics server

2006-08-30 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:21:25PM -0600, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Neal, > > The ZFS administration class, available in the fall, I think, covers > basically the same content as the ZFS admin guide only with extensive > lab exercises. You could not give any ZFS class and advertise it as: "ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle on ZFS

2006-08-30 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:52:17PM +0200, Daniel Rock wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > >Hi all, > > > >Does anybody use Oracle on ZFS in production (but not as a > >background/testing database but as a front line) ? [ ... ] Robert and Daniel, How did you put oracle on ZFS: - one zpool+

[zfs-discuss] Oracle on ZFS

2006-08-25 Thread przemolicc
Hi all, Does anybody use Oracle on ZFS in production (but not as a background/testing database but as a front line) ? I am interesting especially in: - how does it behave after a long time of using it. Becasue COW nature of ZFS I don't know how it influences performance of queries. - general opi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance compared to UFS & VxFS - offtopic

2006-08-22 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:15:08AM -0700, Tony Galway wrote: > A question (well lets make it 3 really) ??? Is vdbench a useful tool when > testing file system performance of a ZFS file system? Secondly - is ZFS write > performance really much worse than UFS or VxFS? and Third - what is a good >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unreliable ZFS backups or....

2006-08-14 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:25:11PM -0700, Peter Looyenga wrote: > I looked into backing up ZFS and quite honostly I can't say I am convinced > about its usefullness here when compared to the traditional ufsdump/restore. > While snapshots are nice they can never substitute offline backups. And >

Re: [zfs-discuss] DTrace IO provider and oracle

2006-08-09 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:33:28AM -0500, Tao Chen wrote: > On 8/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >Solaris 10 GA + latest recommended patches: > > > >while runing dtrace: > > > >bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'io:::start [EMAIL PROTECTED], args[2]->fi_pathname] = > >coun

Re: [zfs-discuss] DTrace IO provider and oracle

2006-08-09 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:47:51PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello przemolicc, > > Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 3:54:26 PM, you wrote: > > ppf> Hello, > > ppf> Solaris 10 GA + latest recommended patches: > > ppf> while runing dtrace: > > pp

[zfs-discuss] DTrace IO provider and oracle

2006-08-08 Thread przemolicc
Hello, Solaris 10 GA + latest recommended patches: while runing dtrace: bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'io:::start [EMAIL PROTECTED], args[2]->fi_pathname] = count();}' ... vim /zones/obsdb3/root/opt/sfw/bin/vim 296 tnslsnr

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs list - column width

2006-07-10 Thread przemolicc
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:07:35PM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >because creating/using filesystems in ZFS becoms "cheap" it is useful now > >to create/organize filesystems in hierarchy: > > > >bash-3.00# zfs list > >NAME USED AVAIL REF

[zfs-discuss] zfs list - column width

2006-07-10 Thread przemolicc
Hello, because creating/using filesystems in ZFS becoms "cheap" it is useful now to create/organize filesystems in hierarchy: bash-3.00# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT dns-pool 136K 43.1G 25.5K /dns-pool dns-pool/zones 50K 43.1G 25.5K /

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-07 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:59:29AM +0800, Raymond Xiong wrote: > It doesn't. Page 11 of the following slides illustrates how COW > works in ZFS: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf > > "Blocks containing active data are never overwritten in place; > instead, a new bl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-29 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:01:15AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello przemolicc, > > Thursday, June 29, 2006, 8:01:26 AM, you wrote: > > ppf> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> ppf> What I wanted to point out is th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-28 Thread przemolicc
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > ppf> What I wanted to point out is the Al's example: he wrote about damaged > data. Data > ppf> were damaged by firmware _not_ disk surface ! In such case ZFS doesn't > help. ZFS can > ppf> detect (and repair) errors on disk surf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-28 Thread przemolicc
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:30:25AM -0400, Jeff Victor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > >What I wanted to point out is the Al's example: he wrote about damaged > >data. Data > >were damaged by firmware _not_ disk surface !

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-28 Thread przemolicc
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello przemolicc, > > Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 10:57:17 AM, you wrote: > > ppf> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:16:13PM -0500, Al Hopper wrote: > >> Case in point, there was a gentleman who posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Storage

2006-06-28 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:16:13PM -0500, Al Hopper wrote: > Case in point, there was a gentleman who posted on the Yahoo Groups solx86 > list and described how faulty firmware on a Hitach HDS system damaged a > bunch of data. The HDS system moves disk blocks around, between one disk > and another