Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 07:07:50AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: I'd expect more than 105290K/s on a sequential read as a peak for a single drive, let alone a striped set. The system has a relatively decent CPU, however only 2GB memory, do you think increasing this to 4GB would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-20 Thread Ware Adams
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'd expect more than 105290K/s on a sequential read as a peak for a single drive, let alone a striped set. The system has a relatively decent CPU, however only 2GB memory, do you think increasing this to 4GB would noticeably affect

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-20 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Oh, and with 4x 3 TByte SATA mirrored pool is pretty much without alternative, right? You can also use raidz2, which will have a little more resiliency. With mirroring, you can lose one disk without data loss, but losing a

[zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi guys, sorry in advance if this is somewhat a lowly question, I've recently built a zfs test box based on nexentastor with 4x samsung 2tb drives connected via SATA-II in a raidz1 configuration with dedup enabled compression off and pool version 23. From running bonnie++ I get the following

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Michael Armstrong wrote: Hi guys, sorry in advance if this is somewhat a lowly question, I've recently built a zfs test box based on nexentastor with 4x samsung 2tb drives connected via SATA-II in a raidz1 configuration with dedup enabled compression off and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
I've since turned off dedup, added another 3 drives and results have improved to around 148388K/sec on average, would turning on compression make things more CPU bound and improve performance further? On 18 Jan 2011, at 15:07, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Michael

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:11 +, Michael Armstrong wrote: I've since turned off dedup, added another 3 drives and results have improved to around 148388K/sec on average, would turning on compression make things more CPU bound and improve performance further? On 18 Jan 2011, at 15:07,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Thanks everyone, I think overtime I'm gonna update the system to include an ssd for sure. Memory may come later though. Thanks for everyone's responses Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:11 +, Michael Armstrong wrote: I've since turned off dedup, added

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
You can't really do that. Adding an SSD for L2ARC will help a bit, but L2ARC storage also consumes RAM to maintain a cache table of what's in the L2ARC. Using 2GB of RAM with an SSD-based L2ARC (even without Dedup) likely won't help you too much vs not having the SSD. If you're going to turn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Armstrong
Ah ok, I wont be using dedup anyway just wanted to try. Ill be adding more ram though, I guess you can't have too much. Thanks Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: You can't really do that. Adding an SSD for L2ARC will help a bit, but L2ARC storage also consumes RAM to maintain a cache