Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-18 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
after some fruitful discussions with Jörg, it turned out that my mtwrite patch prevents tar, star, gtar, and unzip from setting the file times correctly. I've investigated this issue and updated the patch accordingly. Unfortunately, I encountered an issue concerning semaphores, which seem to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff Bonwick
No, that is definitely not expected. One thing that can hose you is having a single disk that performs really badly. I've seen disks as slow as 5 MB/sec due to vibration, bad sectors, etc. To see if you have such a disk, try my diskqual.sh script (below). On my desktop system, which has 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Jeff Bonwick wrote: disks=`format /dev/null | grep c.t.d | nawk '{print $2}'` I had to change the above line to disks=`format /dev/null | grep ' c.t' | nawk '{print $2}'` in order to match my mutipathed devices. ./diskqual.sh c1t0d0 130 MB/sec c1t1d0 13422 MB/sec

[zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Henrik Hjort
Hi! I just want to check with the community to see if this is normal. I have used a X4500 with 500Gb disks and I'm not impressed by the copy performance. I can run several jobs in parallel and get close to 400mb/s but I need better performance from a single copy. I have tried to be EVIL as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On my drive array (capable of 260MB/second single-process writes and 450MB/second single-process reads) 'zfs iostat' reports a read rate of about 59MB/second and a write rate of about 59MB/second when executing 'cp -r' on a directory containing thousands of 8MB files. This seems very similar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Bob Friesenhahn schrieb: On my drive array (capable of 260MB/second single-process writes and 450MB/second single-process reads) 'zfs iostat' reports a read rate of about 59MB/second and a write rate of about 59MB/second when executing 'cp -r' on a directory containing thousands of 8MB