Re: [zfs-discuss] VDI iops with caching

2013-01-04 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-01-04 02:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote: All of these IOPS <--> VDI users guidelines are wrong. The problem is that the variability of response time is too great for a HDD. The only hope we have of getting the back-of-the-napkin calculations to work is to reduce the variability by using a

Re: [zfs-discuss] VDI iops with caching

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: > Thanks Richard, Happy New Year. > > On 13-01-03 09:45 AM, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: >> >>> I am looking at the performance numbers for the Oracle VDI admin guide. >>> >>> http://docs.oracle.com/ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11 System Reboots Continuously Because of a ZFS-Related Panic (7191375)

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> >> Illumos is not so good at dealing with huge memory systems but perhaps >> it is also more stable as well. > > Well, I guess that it depends on your environment, but generally I would > expect S11 to be more stable if only because the sh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 11 System Reboots Continuously Because of a ZFS-Related Panic (7191375)

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
> > Illumos is not so good at dealing with huge memory systems but perhaps > it is also more stable as well. Well, I guess that it depends on your environment, but generally I would expect S11 to be more stable if only because the sheer amount of bugs reported by paid customers and bug fixes by

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Phillip Wagstrom
If you're dedicating the disk to a single task (data, SLOG, L2ARC) then absolutely. If you're splitting tasks and wanting to make a drive do two things, like SLOG and L2ARC, then you have to do this. Some of the confusion here is between what is a traditional FDISK partition (p

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:57:44PM -, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk > > partition on the drive and creating the two slices under that. > > Why? In most cases giving zfs an entire disk is the best option. > I wouldn't bother with a

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
> Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk > partition on the drive and creating the two slices under that. Why? In most cases giving zfs an entire disk is the best option. I wouldn't bother with any manual partitioning. -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com __

Re: [zfs-discuss] VDI iops with caching

2013-01-04 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Jan 3 at 20:38, Geoff Nordli wrote: On Jan 2, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote: I am looking at the performance numbers for the Oracle VDI admin guide. http://docs.oracle.com/html/E26214_02/performance-storage.html From my calculations for 200 desktops ru

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: > Eugen, Thanks Phillip and others, most illuminating (pun intended). > Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it > is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for >

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Gea
> > Thanks. Apparently, napp-it web interface did not do what I asked it to do. > I'll try to remove the cache and the log devices from the pool, and redo it > from the command line interface. > napp-it up to 0.8 does not support slices or partitions napp-it 0.9 supports partitions an offers pa