Re: [zfs-discuss] VMGuest IOMeter numbers

2010-07-25 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello Mark, I assume you have a read-intensive workload, not many synchronous writes, so leave out the ZIL, please try: * configure the controller to show individual disks, no RAID * create one large striped pool (zpool create tank c0t0d{1,2,3,4,5}) * if your SSD is c0t0d6, use it as an L2ARC (z

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

2010-07-01 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello, this may not apply to your machine. I have two changes to your setup: * Opensolaris instead of Nexenta * DL585G1 instead of your DL380G4 Here's my problem: reproducible crash after a certain time (1:30h in my case). Explanation: the HP machine has enterprise features (ECC RAM) and perfor

[zfs-discuss] /bin/cp vs /usr/gnu/bin/pc

2010-06-26 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello, I came across this blog post: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/copying-files-on-solaris-slow-or-fast-its-your-choice/ and would like to hear from you performance gurus how this 2007 article relates to the 2010 ZFS implementation? What should I use and why? Thanks, Oliver -

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirror resilver @500k/s

2010-05-17 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello Everybody, thank you for your support. I have been able to find a sustained 50-70mb resilvering with the "iostat -x 10" command. On one out of 3 discs. The other two discs are now on their way back to the vendor and I hope to be able to report better success when I get them back. Than

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirror resilver @500k/s

2010-05-14 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello Will, thank you for the explanation of "zpool iostat -v data" without any further arguments! I will run the two suggested commands when I get back from work. Yes, the 20gb have taken about 12h to resilver. Now there's just 204gb left to do ... Thanks to everyone for your replies, Oliv

[zfs-discuss] mirror resilver @500k/s

2010-05-13 Thread Oliver Seidel
Hello, I'm a grown-up and willing to read, but I can't find where to read. Please point me to the place that explains how I can diagnose this situation: adding a mirror to a disk fills the mirror with an apparent rate of 500k per second. 1) what diagnostic information should I look at (and per