Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID,

2008-02-10 Thread Jonathan Loran
Anton B. Rang wrote: Careful here. If your workload is unpredictable, RAID 6 (and RAID 5) for that matter will break down under highly randomized write loads. Oh? What precisely do you mean by "break down"? RAID 5's write performance is well-understood and it's used successfully in

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID, a recipe for success?

2008-02-10 Thread Richard Elling
Kyle McDonald wrote: > Richard Elling wrote: > >> Nick wrote: >> >> >>> I have been tasked with putting together a storage solution for use in a >>> virtualization setup, serving NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, over GigE. I've >>> inherited a few components to work with: >>> >>> x86 dual cor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Feb 5, 2008 9:52 PM, William Fretts-Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may not be a ZFS issue, so please bear with me! > > I have 4 internal drives that I have striped/mirrored with ZFS and have an > application server which is reading/writing to hundreds of thousands of > files on it, th

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID,

2008-02-10 Thread Anton B. Rang
> Careful here.  If your workload is unpredictable, RAID 6 (and RAID 5) > for that matter will break down under highly randomized write loads.  Oh? What precisely do you mean by "break down"? RAID 5's write performance is well-understood and it's used successfully in many installations for rand

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID, a recipe for success?

2008-02-10 Thread Kyle McDonald
Richard Elling wrote: > Nick wrote: > >> I have been tasked with putting together a storage solution for use in a >> virtualization setup, serving NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI, over GigE. I've >> inherited a few components to work with: >> >> x86 dual core server , 512MB LSI-ELP RAID card >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID,

2008-02-10 Thread Nick
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Issue

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello William, Thursday, February 7, 2008, 7:46:51 PM, you wrote: WFS> -Setting zfs_nocacheflush, though got me drastically increased WFS> throughput--client requests took, on average, less than 2 seconds each! That's interesting - a bug in scsi driver for v40z? -- Best regards, Robert

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS taking up to 80 seconds to flush a single 8KB O_SYNC block.

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Nathan, Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:54:39 AM, you wrote: NK> For kicks, I disabled the ZIL: zil_disable/W0t1, and that made not a NK> pinch of difference. :) Have you exported and them imported pool to get zil_disable into effect? -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID, a recipe for success?

2008-02-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Feb 10, 2008 9:06 AM, Jonathan Loran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Richard Elling wrote: > > Nick wrote: > > > Using the RAID cards capability for RAID6 sounds attractive? > > > > Assuming the card works well with Solaris, this sounds like a > reasonable solution. > > > > Careful her

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris, ZFS and Hardware RAID,

2008-02-10 Thread Nick
The workload will be generated by a gaggle of virtual machines, most of which I expect to be running the normal mix of Microsoft/Office type applications (of which I expect MS-Exchange to be the most demanding). I gather the LSI card allows you to dedicate the entire NVRAM cache to writes shou