Re: ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-16 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
I have some old dd numbers from when I was experimenting to find a UFS/gstripe combination that wasn't horrifyingly slow to read. I was not then adjusting filesystem blocksize, and not until moving UFS2 bs to the maximum did initial results seem worth resuming iozone tests. Raid HW stripe-wi

ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-15 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
Hi, I posted earlier about some results with this same system using UFS2. Now trying to test ZFS. This is a Dell PE2950 with two Perc6 controllers and 4 md1000 disk shelves with 750GB drives. 16GB RAM, dual quad core Xeon. I recompiled our kernel to use the ULE scheduler instead of default.

Re: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-15 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
Hi Aristedes, We are/were testing FreeBSD on a Dell PE2950 with a Myricom 10GB PCI-Express copper CX card. The driver seems mature. In tests out of the box, I only saw about 3Gbps from iperf (testing against a linux system...and maybe there are other issues with our environment/that system

Re: performance tuning on perc6 (LSI) controller

2008-03-25 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
surprise. thanks, Ben Ivan Voras wrote: Benjeman J. Meekhof wrote: My baseline was this - on linux 2.6.20 we're doing 800MB/s write and greater read with this configuration: 2 raid6 volumes volumes striped into a raid0 volume using linux software raid, XFS filesystem. Each raid6 is

performance tuning on perc6 (LSI) controller

2008-03-24 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
Should clarify that the first test mentioned below used the same gstripe setup as the latter one but did not specify any newfs blocksize: #gstripe label -v -s 128k test /dev/mfid0 /dev/mfid2 #newfs -U /dev/stripe/test sorry, Ben Hello, I think this m

performance tuning on perc6 (LSI) controller

2008-03-24 Thread Benjeman J. Meekhof
Hello, I think this might be useful information, and am also hoping for a little input. We've been doing some FreeBSD benchmarking on Dell PE2950 systems with Perc6 controllers (dual-quad Xeon, 16GB, Perc6=LSI card, mfi driver, 7.0-RELEASE). There are two controllers in each system, and eac