On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:29:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > are showing me. Read performance OTOH is strange, zpool and systat both
> > reporting consistently an aggregated read speed of around 120MB/s during
> > the block read tests (which seems a bit slow for the drives - and indeed
> > systat reports the drives at less than 50% utilisation) but bonnie is
> > only reporting 35MB/s, I see similar discrepancies with simple dd block
> > reads to /dev/null, in which case my stopwatch agrees with dd.
> no it is not wrong.
>
> Do more tests (possibly your own doing heavy mixed workload) to
> understand well why you should not use this "last word in filesystems".
First surprise, with only 4GB I had set primarycache=metadata,
changing that to primarycache=all caused the systat, zpool iostat and
bonnie figures all to agree - and made them all a bit better too. Lesson
from this - don't bother setting primarycache=metadata.
With that puzzle gone testing and tuning becomes more useful:
Enabling prefetch made a huge difference to the per char sequential
read, but didn't really change anything else. Indeed this test is now CPU
limited in bonnie - that'll do.
Rebooting with zfs.cache_flush_disable=1 made everything faster.
Block writes and reads maxed out the discs at around 110MB/s and 200MB/s
respectively - pretty close to the raw disc speed. Rewrite nearly doubled in
speed too.
Next stop NFS tuning.
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