Re: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-16 Thread gnn
At Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > > On 15/04/2008, at 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well > > supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD > > though. How do you intend to get

Re: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-16 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Benjeman J. Meekhof wrote: 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 i

Re: ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Benjeman J. Meekhof wrote: > 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

Re: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:02:33AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > > On 15/04/2008, at 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I am working with the Chelsio hardware and it seems to be well > >supported on FreeBSD. All the machines in that system are FreeBSD > >though. How do you intend to get

RE: 10GbE speeds

2008-04-16 Thread Leonid Grossman
Neterion supports OS X on 10GbE NICs, I think Intel does as well (via third party). Leonid > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kip Macy > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:09 PM > To: Aristedes Maniatis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fr

Re: ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-16 Thread Benjeman Meekhof
Sure, here is an example iozone output when I tested UFS2. Same hardware config as with ZFS test. #gstripe label -v -s 128k test /dev/mfid0 /dev/mfid2 #newfs -U -b 65536 /dev/stripe/test "Throughput report Y-axis is type of test X-axis is number of processes" "Record size = 512 Kbytes " "Outp

Re: ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Benjeman Meekhof wrote: Sure, here is an example iozone output when I tested UFS2. Same hardware config as with ZFS test. #gstripe label -v -s 128k test /dev/mfid0 /dev/mfid2 #newfs -U -b 65536 /dev/stripe/test "Throughput report Y-axis is type of test X-axis is number of processes" "Record

Re: ZFS, Dell PE2950

2008-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Per my discussion with Scott Long Can you repeat the test for UFS, but create gstripe with a really small stripe size, like 4 KB? Actually, no need to do that - it looks like iozone is doing quite random IO ops so it won't help you. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

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