Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-04 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart>> On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland >> >> Out of interest have you tried limiting the number of queues? >> >> If not give it a try see

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article , Peter Wemm quotes some advice about ZFS filesystem vdev layout: >"1. Virtual Devices Determine IOPS >IOPS (I/O per second) are mostly a factor of the number of virtual >devices (vdevs) in a zpool. They are not a factor of the raw number of >disks in the zpool. This is probably the sing

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > - I recall some advice that zpool's should not have more than about 8 or > 10 disks in them, and you should instead create multiple zpools if you > have more disks. Perhaps investigate the source of that rumour and if > it's true, try crea

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. please file a bug if hz is affecting your performance. Ew. -adrian ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 07/04/13 13:06, Outback Dingo wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart > > wrote: > > > > On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Har

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/04/13 13:06, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Stewart > wrote: > > On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland > mailto:kill...@multiplay.co.uk>>wrote: [snip] > >> >

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
gmail.com > >>> > >> To: "Lawrence Stewart" > >> Cc: > >> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM > >> Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Law

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/04/13 10:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland > wrote: > >> >> - Original Message - From: "Outback Dingo" >> >> To: "Lawrence Stewart" >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Outback Dingo" > > To: "Lawrence Stewart" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM > Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance > > > > On W

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Outback Dingo" To: "Lawrence Stewart" Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Terrible ix performance On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Wed,

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart > > wrote: > > > > On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > Ive got a high end storage server here, iper

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/03/13 22:58, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart > wrote: > > On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: > > Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io > > > > iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > ix is just the device name, it is using the ixgbe driver. The driver should > print some kind of banner when it loads, what version of the OS and driver > are you using?? I have little experience testing nfs or samba so I am > not sure right off

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: > > Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io > > > > iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M > > > > Cl

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence Stewart
On 07/03/13 14:28, Outback Dingo wrote: > Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io > > iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M > > Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 2.50

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 2, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io > > > the card has a 3 meter twinax cable from cisco connected to it, going > through a fujitsu switch. We have tweaked various networking, and kernel > sysctls, however fr

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-02 Thread Jack Vogel
ix is just the device name, it is using the ixgbe driver. The driver should print some kind of banner when it loads, what version of the OS and driver are you using?? I have little experience testing nfs or samba so I am not sure right off what might be the problem. Jack On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at

Terrible ix performance

2013-07-02 Thread Outback Dingo
Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 2.50 MByte (WARNING: requested 2.50 MByte) --