Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 17, 2007 4:18 PM, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The pool holds home directories so small sequential writes to one > > large file present one of a few interesting use cases. > > Can you be more specific here ? > > Do you have a body of application that would do small >

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 17, 2007 10:37 AM, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dd uses a default block size of 512B. Does this map to your > expected usage ? When I quickly tested the CPU cost of small > read from cache, I did see that ZFS was more costly than UFS > up to a crossover between 8K and 16

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 14, 2007 8:24 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Penczek wrote: > > > > The performance is slightly disappointing. Does anyone have > > a similar setup and can anyone share some figures? > > Any pointers to possible imp

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, sorry for the lengthy post ... On Dec 15, 2007 1:56 PM, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Sequential writing problem with process throttling - there's an open > bug for it for quite a while. Try to lower txg_time to 1s - should > help a little bit. Since setting txg_time to

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-16 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi, On Dec 14, 2007 7:50 PM, Louwtjie Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I would have said ... to be expected, since the 280 came with a > 100Mbit interface. So a 9-12 MB/s peak would be acceptable. You did > mention a "gigabit switch"... did you install a gigabit HBA ? If > that's the case

[zfs-discuss] JBOD performance

2007-12-14 Thread Frank Penczek
Hi all, we are using the following setup as file server: --- # uname -a SunOS troubadix 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R # prtconf -D System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Memory size: 2048 Megabytes System Peripherals (Software Nodes): SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R (driver n