Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list & opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Fred Liu
Is it possible to replicate the whole opensolaris site to illumos/openindiana/smartos/omnios site in a sub-catalog as archive? >-Original Message- >From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org >[mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov >Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
I just wanted to add that when I create a pool it is using ashift 9. Arent all ssds 4k drives at this point? -Original Message- From: Grant Albitz [mailto:galb...@albitz.biz] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 9:28 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
sorry I have not, that is the next logical step but only my esxi servers have 10g interfaces and I cannot take them down at the moment. I have been looking this issue up online and I do find some people with poor reads and good writes. In some cases they are saying it was a mismatch in the targ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Ian Collins
Grant Albitz wrote: Setting the MTU to 1500 did not affect read speeds but it cut my write speeds in half. Flow control on or off did not make any difference. The cable is somewhat ruled out because I am seeing the same exact performance on 2 different esxi hosts. Have you tried a native OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 16, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 02/17/2013 12:52 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: >> Yes jim I actually used something similar to enable the 9000 mtu that's why >> I want familiar with the config file method. >> >> dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 InterfaceName >> >> >> Flowcontro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
Setting the MTU to 1500 did not affect read speeds but it cut my write speeds in half. Flow control on or off did not make any difference. The cable is somewhat ruled out because I am seeing the same exact performance on 2 different esxi hosts. -Original Message- From: Jim Klimov [mai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-17 00:52, Grant Albitz wrote: Yes jim I actually used something similar to enable the 9000 mtu that's why I want familiar with the config file method. dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 InterfaceName Flowcontrol is currently off on the zfs host but enabled by default on esxi, I am goi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/17/2013 12:52 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: > Yes jim I actually used something similar to enable the 9000 mtu that's why I > want familiar with the config file method. > > dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 InterfaceName > > > Flowcontrol is currently off on the zfs host but enabled by default on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
Yes jim I actually used something similar to enable the 9000 mtu that's why I want familiar with the config file method. dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 InterfaceName Flowcontrol is currently off on the zfs host but enabled by default on esxi, I am going to try enabling flow control first and i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-17 00:39, Grant Albitz wrote: I am not sure that I can disable flow control since no switch is present. Is it turned on in the host by default? If you're on OpenIndiana (well, you're on the list, but I think I haven't seen a statement of your OS version), you can try "dladm show-li

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/17/2013 12:39 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: > I am not sure that I can disable flow control since no switch is present. Is > it turned on in the host by default? Flow control is a feature of the NIC and any two NICs can negotiate to have it turned on, you don't need a switch in between. See /kern

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
I am not sure that I can disable flow control since no switch is present. Is it turned on in the host by default? -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 6:05 PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Ian Collins
Ian Collins wrote: Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to eliminate vmware as the cause? Second that. The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bug

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Ian Collins
Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to eliminate vmware as the cause? Second that. The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard set

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >> Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to >> eliminate vmware as the cause? > > Second that. > > The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard > settings c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to > eliminate vmware as the cause? Second that. The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard settings can, at times. Since the difference is only in the storage -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Ian Collins
Grant Albitz wrote: Local dd results: write 268.343296 GB via dd, please wait... time dd if=/dev/zero of=/PSC.Net/dd.tst bs=2048000 count=131027 131027+0 records in 131027+0 records out real 3:09.8 user0.1 sys 2:40.1 268.343296 GB in 189.8s = 1413.82 MB/s Write 131027+0 rec

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
Local dd results: write 268.343296 GB via dd, please wait... time dd if=/dev/zero of=/PSC.Net/dd.tst bs=2048000 count=131027 131027+0 records in 131027+0 records out real 3:09.8 user0.1 sys 2:40.1 268.343296 GB in 189.8s = 1413.82 MB/s Write 131027+0 records in 131027+0 recor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Hi Grant, On 02/16/2013 05:14 PM, Grant Albitz wrote: > Hi I am trying to track down a performance issue with my setup. Always be sure to do your performance testing on the machine itself first, before going on to test through more layers of the stack (i.e. iSCSI). What does "iostat -xn 1" report

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Jim Klimov
As a technical terminology nit - all components in a zfs pool are "vdevs", albeit of different levels. "Leaf vdevs" (disks, slices, files) are aggregated into top-level vdevs (singular, mirrors, raidzN) and a pool is striped over them. All in all, if the different vdev topologies yield the same r

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
Hi I am trying to track down a performance issue with my setup. I have 24 ssds in 6 vdevs (4 drives per) that are then striped. Essentially a raid50. Originally I had a perc h310 and saw similar numbers. I have since switched to a perch h710 and have each drive in raid 0 and presented to the os

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Grant Albitz
Hi I am trying to track down a performance issue with my setup. I have 24 ssds in 6 vdevs (4 drives per) that are then striped. Essentially a raid50. Originally I had a perc h310 and saw similar numbers. I have since switched to a perch h710 and have each drive in raid 0 and presented to the os.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] opensolaris.org shutting down next month

2013-02-16 Thread real-men-dont-click
-Original message- From: Gregory S. Youngblood Sent: Fri 15-02-2013 18:47 Subject:Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] opensolaris.org shutting down next month To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana ; > And it can go away at any time. If they change robots.txt to block spiders > they