Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-19 Thread Tao Chen
On 7/17/06, Jonathan Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All,I've just built an 8 disk zfs storage box, and I'm in the testing phase before I put it into production. I've run into some unusual results, and I was hoping the community could offer some suggestions. I've bascially made the switch to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-18 Thread Eric Schrock
Also note that the current prefetching (even in snv_41) still suffers from some major systematic performance problems. This should be fixed by snv_45/s10u3, and is covered by the following bug: 6447377 ZFS prefetch is inconsistant I'll duplicate Mark's evaluation here, since it doesn't show up o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Title: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts? The prefetch and I/O scheduling of nv41 were responsible for some quirky performance.  First time read performance might be good, then subsequent reads might be very poor. With a very recent update to the zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wheeler
> On 7/17/06, Jonathan Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Reads: 4 disks gives me 190MB/sec. WOAH! I'm very > happy with that. 8 disks should scale to 380 then, > Well 320 isn't all that far off - no biggie. > > Looking at the 6 disk raidz is interesting though, > 290MB/sec. The disks are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wheeler
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Roch wrote: > > > > > Sorry to plug my own blog but have you had a look > at these ? > > > > >http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_a > nd_not_to (raidz) > > >http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynam > ics_of_zfs > > > > Also, my thinking i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread James Dickens
On 7/17/06, Jonathan Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I've just built an 8 disk zfs storage box, and I'm in the testing phase before I put it into production. I've run into some unusual results, and I was hoping the community could offer some suggestions. I've bascially made the swit

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Roch wrote: > > Sorry to plug my own blog but have you had a look at these ? > > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_and_not_to (raidz) > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs > > Also, my thinking is that raid-z is probabl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Elling
Dana H. Myers wrote: Jonathan Wheeler wrote: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- mirror MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 8 disk 8196

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Roch
Sorry to plug my own blog but have you had a look at these ? http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_and_not_to (raidz) http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=the_dynamics_of_zfs Also, my thinking is that raid-z is probably more friendly when the config contains

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Dana H. Myers
Jonathan Wheeler wrote: I'm not a ZFS expert - I'm just an enthusiastic user inside Sun. Here are some brief observations: > Bonnie > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- > --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- > --See

[zfs-discuss] ZFS bechmarks w/8 disk raid - Quirky results, any thoughts?

2006-07-17 Thread Jonathan Wheeler
Hi All, I've just built an 8 disk zfs storage box, and I'm in the testing phase before I put it into production. I've run into some unusual results, and I was hoping the community could offer some suggestions. I've bascially made the switch to Solaris on the promises of ZFS alone (yes I'm that