Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?

2009-02-12 Thread Rob Brown
Thanks Nathan, I want to test the underlying performance, of course the problem is I want to test the 16 or so disks in the stripe, rather than individual devices. Thanks Rob On 28/01/2009 22:23, Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com wrote: Also - My experience with a very small ARC is

[zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Rob Brown
Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. I saw the following two options on a nevada box which presumably control it: primarycache secondarycache But I¹m running

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Richard Elling
Rob Brown wrote: Afternoon, In order to test my storage I want to stop the cacheing effect of the ARC on a ZFS filesystem. I can do similar on UFS by mounting it with the directio flag. No, not really the same concept, which is why Roch wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is Disabling ARC on SolarisU4 possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Also - My experience with a very small ARC is that your performance will stink. ZFS is an advanced filesystem that IMO makes some assumptions about capability and capacity of current hardware. If you don't give what it's expecting, your results may be equally unexpected. If you are keen to