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

2009-11-21 Thread Paul Fisher
The problem appears to be memory modules that are not quite up-to-spec. After removing the originally flagged module, others still were reporting errors and fmd was getting in the way. I ended up with 24G that worked under S10U8 on one of the two identical boxes. Under this configuration, t

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