On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:11 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> It all depends on how they are connecting to the storage. iSCSI, CIFS,
>> NFS,
>> database, rsync, ...?
>>
>> The reason I say this is because ZFS will coalesce writes, so just
>> looking at
>> iostat data (ops versus size) will not be appr
> It all depends on how they are connecting to the storage. iSCSI, CIFS,
> NFS,
> database, rsync, ...?
>
> The reason I say this is because ZFS will coalesce writes, so just
> looking at
> iostat data (ops versus size) will not be appropriate. You need to
> look at the
> data flowing between ZF
On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Recently, I’m benchmarking all kinds of stuff on my systems. And one
> question I can’t intelligently answer is what blocksize I should use in these
> tests.
>
> I assume there is something which monitors present disk activity, that I
> c
Recently, I'm benchmarking all kinds of stuff on my systems. And one
question I can't intelligently answer is what blocksize I should use in
these tests.
I assume there is something which monitors present disk activity, that I
could run on my production servers, to give me some statistics of t
