Hi Ian,

I am in the process of testing my pool with synchronous 4k writes and
various thread numbers.
How do you have your pools configured to with the Evo's as logs ?

Thanks and regards,
  Andre

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andre Sachs via smartos-discuss wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have a bunch of Samsung EVO 840's that we are trying to use as log
>> devices on some old nodes to give them a bit of life.
>>
>> The nodes are using an LSI 2008 controller and run well.
>>
>> When we add the EVO as an slog device writes max out at 30Mb/s. We then
>> swapped the log for an Intel DC3700 and got 200MB's on the pool.
>>
>>
> I've testes 840's in various places in a pool (I'm currently using them
> for cache) and I didn't notice that poor performance as a log.
>
> Even though they performed reasonably well, I wouldn't use them for logs
> because they don't have power loss protection.
>
> You didn't say how you tested them as logs, which is an important detail.
> My testing includes hammering the pool with synchronous 4K writes from one
> to 32 threads.
>
> --
> Ian.
>



-- 
Andre Sachs
CloudAfrica
t: 076 333 1883



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