Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarking ZFS via NFS

2009-01-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Carsten Aulbert wrote: >> >> My experience with iozone is that it refuses to run on an NFS client of >> a Solaris server using ZFS since it performs a test and then refuses to >> work since it says that the filesystem is not implemented correctly. >> Commenting a line of code in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarking ZFS via NFS

2009-01-08 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Bob. Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> Here is the current example - can anyone with deeper knowledge tell me >> if these are reasonable values to start with? > > Everything depends on what you are planning do with your NFS access. For > example, the default blocksize for zfs is 128K. My example test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarking ZFS via NFS

2009-01-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > for the people higher up the ladder), but someone gave a hint to use > multiple threads for testing the ops/s and here I'm a bit at a loss how > to understand the results and if the values are reasonable or not. I will admit that some research is requi

[zfs-discuss] Benchmarking ZFS via NFS

2009-01-08 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, among many other things I recently restarted benchmarking ZFS over NFS3 performance between X4500 (host) and Linux clients. I've just iozone quite a while ago and am still a bit at a loss understanding the results. The automatic mode is pretty ok (and generates nice 3D plots for the people