Re: [perf-discuss] sluggish opensolaris-b127 with unknown fault

2009-11-18 Thread johansen
Paul: I'm interested in getting a box like this. I hope this problem has a simple fix. > When I create a 8x mirrored vdev pool (1T samsung enterise drives) and > do a simple dd test it maxes out at 100M/s, where I'd normally expect > 500M/s+ at least. Will you include the output from the follow

Re: [perf-discuss] sluggish opensolaris-b127 with unknown fault

2009-11-18 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Paul Fisher wrote: Richard, Thanks, that did help responsiveness of the system a bit. Unfortunately it is still sluggish and and producing only 100M/s on a 3 disk stripe, as well as a 16 disk set of mirrored vdevs. During fmd is still right up there with dd com

Re: [perf-discuss] sluggish opensolaris-b127 with unknown fault

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Fisher
Richard, Thanks, that did help responsiveness of the system a bit. Unfortunately it is still sluggish and and producing only 100M/s on a 3 disk stripe, as well as a 16 disk set of mirrored vdevs. During fmd is still right up there with dd competing for the top spot. Richard Elling wrote: P

Re: [perf-discuss] sluggish opensolaris-b127 with unknown fault

2009-11-18 Thread Richard Elling
Paul, It sounds like the eft FMA agent is burning up the system. You might try to unload it and see if response perks up. In general, you can use prstat, top, or the system performance monitor app (can't remember its real name) to see what processes are using resources. to see loaded FM

[perf-discuss] sluggish opensolaris-b127 with unknown fault

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Fisher
Hopefully someone can help me get to the bottom of the issue with this box and opensolaris-b127. I have a new 2x Intel 5520 supermicro box (prtdiag/prtconf/scanpci below) that installed extremely slowly (4+ hours) and then once booted is overall acting sluggishly. Load seems to stay at 0.50 all