Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:41:41AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: Daniel Carosone [mailto:d...@geek.com.au] > > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:05 PM > > > > the [sata] channel is idle, blocked on command completion, while > > the heads seek. > > I'm interested in proving this point.

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Richard Elling wrote: >> Actually, all of the data I've gathered recently shows that the number of >> IOPS does not significantly increase for HDDs running random workloads. >> However the response time does :-( My data is leading me to want to

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:47 PM >> >> Actually, all of the data I've gathered recently shows that the number of >> IOPS does not significantly increase for HDDs running random

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:47 PM > > Actually, all of the data I've gathered recently shows that the number of > IOPS does not significantly increase for HDDs running random workloads. > However the response time does :-( Could you

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Richard Elling wrote: Actually, all of the data I've gathered recently shows that the number of IOPS does not significantly increase for HDDs running random workloads. However the response time does :-( My data is leading me to want to restrict the queue depth to 1 or 2 for HDDs. Thinking