Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Chris, Thursday, May 15, 2008, 5:42:32 AM, you wrote: CS I wrote: CS | I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am CS | seeing a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous CS | sequential reads increases. CS To update zfs-discuss on this: after more

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-16 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| Have you tried to disable vdev caching and leave file level | prefetching? If you mean setting zfs_vdev_cache_bshift to 13 (per the ZFS Evil Tuning Guide) to turn off device-level prefetching then yes, I have tried turning off just that; it made no difference. If there's another tunable then

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Chris, Friday, May 9, 2008, 9:19:53 PM, you wrote: CS I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am seeing CS a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous sequential CS reads increases. CS Setup: CS NFS client - Solaris NFS server - iSCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Siebenmann
I wrote: | I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am | seeing a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous | sequential reads increases. To update zfs-discuss on this: after more investigation, this seems to be due to file-level prefetching. Turning

[zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Siebenmann
I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am seeing a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous sequential reads increases. Setup: NFS client - Solaris NFS server - iSCSI target machine There are 12 physical disks on the iSCSI target machine. Each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-09 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Chris, Good topic, I'd like to see comments from expert as well. Firstly, I think it has some punishment from NFS, ZFS/NFS has performance lost, and the L2ARC cache feature is the way to solve it, so far. (Has in opensolaris, but not in s10u4 yet, will target in s10u6 release).