[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Why is ZFS raidz slower than simple ufs mount?

2006-08-17 Thread Bob Evans
First, I apologize, I listed the Antares in my original post, it was one of two scsi cards I tested with. The posted CPU snapshots were from the LSI 22320 card (mentioned below). I've tried this with two different SCSI cards. As far as I know, both are standard SCSI cards used for Suns. Sun

[zfs-discuss] Re: Why is ZFS raidz slower than simple ufs mount?

2006-08-17 Thread Bob Evans
Robert, Sorry about not being clearer. The storage unit I am using is configured as follows: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X \ \-- (Each X is an 18 GB SCSI Disk) The first 7 disks have been used for the ZFS RaidZ, I used the last disk (#14) for my UFS target. The first 7 are on one scsi cha

[zfs-discuss] Re: Significant "pauses" during zfs writes

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Evans
One last tidbit, for what it is worth. Rather than watch top, I ran xcpustate. It seems that just as the writes pause, the cpu looks like it hits 100% (or very close), then it falls back down to its lower level. I'm still getting used to Solaris 10 as well, so if you have a DTrace script you'

[zfs-discuss] Re: Significant "pauses" during zfs writes

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Evans
As added information, top reports that "cp" is using about 25% of the single cpu. There are no other apps running. Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

[zfs-discuss] Re: Significant "pauses" during zfs writes

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Evans
I'm starting simple, there is no app. I have a 10GB file (called foo) on the internal FC drive, I did a zfs create raidz bar then ran "cp foo /bar/", so there is no cpu activity due to an app. As a test case, this took 7 min 30 sec to copy to the zfs partition. I removed the pool, formatt

[zfs-discuss] Significant "pauses" during zfs writes

2006-08-14 Thread Bob Evans
HI, Just getting my feet wet with zfs. I set up a test system (Sunblade 1000, dual channel scsi card, disk array with 14x18GB 15K RPM SCSI disks) and was trying to write a large file (10 GB) to the array to see how it performed. I configured the raid using raidz. During the write, I saw the