Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS/ZFS slow on parallel writes

2009-10-30 Thread Bernd Nies
Hi, Just for closing this topic. Two issues have been found which caused the slow write performance on our Sun Storage 7410 with RAIDZ2: (1) A Opensolaris bug when NFS mount option is set to wsize=32768. Reducing to wsize=16384 resulted in a performance gain of about factor 2. http://bugs.ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS/ZFS slow on parallel writes

2009-09-29 Thread Bernd Nies
Hi Bob, > Striping across two large raidz2s is not ideal for > multi-user use. > You are getting the equivalent of two disks worth of > IOPS, which does > not go very far. More smaller raidz vdevs or mirror > vdevs would be > better. Also, make sure that you have plenty of RAM > installed. Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS/ZFS slow on parallel writes

2009-09-29 Thread Bernd Nies
Hi, The system already has a SSD (ATASTECZeusIOPS018GBytesSTMD905C) as ZFS log device. NFS writes from only one host are not the problem. Even with may small files it is almost as fast as a Netapp. Problem arises when doing the same parallel from n hosts. E.g. the same write from 10 hosts

[zfs-discuss] NFS/ZFS slow on parallel writes

2009-09-29 Thread Bernd Nies
Hi, We have a Sun Storage 7410 with the latest release (which is based upon opensolaris). The system uses a hybrid storage pool (23 1TB SATA disks in RAIDZ2 and 1 18GB SSD as log device). The ZFS volumes are exported with NFSv3 over TCP. NFS mount options are: rw,bg,vers=3,proto=tcp,hard,intr,