I'm not sure who nobody is exactly? Given everyone's feedback it sounds like using filebench and paying close attention to synchronous write performance is a good way to begin.
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: >> I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How >> can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache >> devices? I'm using filebench with the fileserver personality. Is >> that my best choice? So far, I've tried filebench directly on the >> server and also on an NFS client. What statistics should I be >> watching? > > So, can nobody answer my questions? > >> To begin, I'm using a single 1 TB SAS disk on the server, without log >> or cache devices. I intend to add an Intel 311 SSD for the log and >> Intel 320 SSDs for the cache. I'd like to ensure that these improve >> NFS performance. I'd like CIFS and zfs send performance to be >> reasonable as well. > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
