Re: [perf-discuss] how to measure zfs performance

2009-06-26 Thread kenny
thanks for the advice. a bit more about my setup. the machine uses amd 4850e cpu with 8gb of ram in raidz2, with 8 wd green 1TB drives, and 1 wd 1TB black drive as the boot drive. the file server is mainly used for storing photos and ripped dvds. when watching dvds directly from the server, i n

[perf-discuss] how to measure zfs performance

2009-06-24 Thread kenny
hello all, i was wondering what is the recommended way to measure the performance of zfs. i think my performance isn't as good as it should be, but with no measurement, i don't even know is my assumption is correct or wrong. so what do people around here use to measure zfs performance? thank

Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-05 Thread Darren Kenny
Hi Prakash, I don't think it's the implementation that bridges between the kernel and the user spaces that's important to JDS, and probably most other people - it's the ultimate API that people will have to write to, and I think from this perspective that sysevents is not what we want - it may