Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Brian wrote: Sometimes when it hangs on boot hitting space bar or any key won't bring it back to the command line. That is why I was wondering if there was a way to not show the splashscreen at all, and rather show what it was trying to load when it hangs. Look at these threads: OpenSola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/23/10 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: Sometimes when it hangs on boot hitting space bar or any key won't bring it back to the command line. That is why I was wondering if there was a way to not show the splashscreen at all, and rather show what it was trying to load when it hangs. From my /

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
GREAT, glad it worked for you! On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Brian wrote: > Ok. What worked for me was booting with the live CD and doing: > > pfexec zpool import -f rpool > reboot > > After that I was able to boot with AHCI enabled. The performance issues I > was seeing are now also gone

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Ok. What worked for me was booting with the live CD and doing: pfexec zpool import -f rpool reboot After that I was able to boot with AHCI enabled. The performance issues I was seeing are now also gone. I am getting around 100 to 110 MB/s during a scrub. Scrubs are completing in 20 minutes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Not completely. I noticed my performance problem in my "tank" rather than my rpool. But my rpool was sharing a controller (the motherboard controller) with some devices in both the rpool and tank. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Sometimes when it hangs on boot hitting space bar or any key won't bring it back to the command line. That is why I was wondering if there was a way to not show the splashscreen at all, and rather show what it was trying to load when it hangs. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
this old thread has info on how to switch from ide->sata mode http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=448758񭣶 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/23/10 08:43 AM, Brian wrote: > >> Is there a way within opensolaris to detect if AHCI is being used by >> vario

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
This didn't work for me. I had the exact same issue a few days ago. My motherboard had the following: Native IDE AHCI RAID Legacy IDE so naturally i chose AHCI, but it ALSO had a mode called "IDE/SATA combined mode" I thought i needed this to use both the ide and ant sata ports, turns out it w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/23/10 08:43 AM, Brian wrote: Is there a way within opensolaris to detect if AHCI is being used by various controllers? I suspect you may be accurate an AHCI is not turned on. The bios for this particular motherboard is fairly confusing on the AHCI settings. The only setting I have is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/23/10 08:52 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: If you install Opensolaris with the AHCI settings off, then switch them on, it will fail to boot I had to reinstall with the settings correct. Well you probably didn't have to. Booting form the live CD and importing the pool would have put things

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
just to make sure i understand what is going on here, you have a rpool which is having performance issues, and you discovered ahci was disabled? you enabled it, and now it won't boot. correct? This happened to me and the solution was to export my storage pool and reinstall my rpool with the ah

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Thanks - I can give reinstalling a shot. Is there anything else I should do first? Should I export my tank pool? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
I am not sure I fully understand the question... It is setup as raidz2 - is that what you wanted to know? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Burgess
If you install Opensolaris with the AHCI settings off, then switch them on, it will fail to boot I had to reinstall with the settings correct. the best way to tell if ahci is working is to use cfgadm if you see your drives there, ahci is on if not, then you may need to reinstall with it on (for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Is there a way within opensolaris to detect if AHCI is being used by various controllers? I suspect you may be accurate an AHCI is not turned on. The bios for this particular motherboard is fairly confusing on the AHCI settings. The only setting I have is actually in the raid section, and it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian wrote: > If I look at c7d0, I get a message about no "Alt Slice" found and I don't > have access to the cache settings.  Not sure if this is part of my problem or > not: That can happen if the controller is not using AHCI. It'll effect your performance pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> extended device statistics > errors --- > r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w > trn tot device > 296.82.9 36640.27.5 7.8 2.0 26.16.6 99 99 0 0 > 0 0 c7d0 > 296.72.5 36618.17.5 7.8 2.0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 22 May 2010, Brian wrote: The -xen helped me determine that it was disks c7d0 and c7d1 that were slower. You may be right, but is not totally clear since you really need to apply a workload which is assured to consistently load the disks. I don't think that 'scrub' is necessarily b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread Brian
Following up with some more information here: This is the output of "iostat -xen 30" extended device statistics errors --- r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot device 296.82.9 36640.27.5 7.8 2.0 26.1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS performance.

2010-05-22 Thread taemun
iostat -xen 1 will provide the same device names as the rest of the system (as well as show error columns). zpool status will show you which drive is in which pool. As for the controllers, cfgadm -al groups them nicely. t On 23 May 2010 03:50, Brian wrote: > I am new to OSOL/ZFS but have just