Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-23 Thread Tomer Gurantz
t access from multiple hosts (which of course is an additional license, aka $$$). Cheers, Tomer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Gerdts Sent: Monday, 24 November 2008 3:44 AM To: Chris Greer Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-23 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Chris Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vxvm with vxfs we achieved 2387 IOPS In this combination you should be using odm, which comes as part of the Storage Foundation for Oracle or Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC products. It makes the database files on vxfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Richard Elling
Chris Greer wrote: > Right now we are not using Oracle...we are using iorate so we don't have > separate logs. When the testing was with Oracle the logs were separate. > This test represents the 13 data luns that we had during those test. > > The reason it wasn't striped with vxvm is that the o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Chris Greer wrote: > zfs with the datafiles recreated after the recordsize change was 3079 IOPS > So now we are at least in the ballpark. ZFS is optimized for fast bulk data storage and data integrity and not so much for transactions. It seems that adding a non-volatile ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Greer
Right now we are not using Oracle...we are using iorate so we don't have separate logs. When the testing was with Oracle the logs were separate. This test represents the 13 data luns that we had during those test. The reason it wasn't striped with vxvm is that the original comparison test was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Todd Stansell
> For those interested, we are using the iorate command from EMC for > the benchmark. For the different test, we have 13 luns presented. > Each one is its own volume and filesystem and a singel file on those > filesystems. We are running 13 iorate processes in parallel (there > is no cpu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Dale Ghent
Are you putting your archive and redo logs on a separate zpool (not just a different zfs fs with the same pool as your data files) ? Are you using direct io at all in any of the config scenarios you listed? /dale On Nov 22, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Chris Greer wrote: > So to give a little backgr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Greer
zfs with the datafiles recreated after the recordsize change was 3079 IOPS So now we are at least in the ballpark. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/li

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Greer
that should be set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush=1 in the post above...that was my typo in the post. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Performance bake off vxfs/ufs/zfs need some help

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Greer
So to give a little background on this, we have been benchmarking Oracle RAC on Linux vs. Oracle on Solaris. In the Solaris test, we are using vxvm and vxfs. We noticed that the same Oracle TPC benchmark at roughly the same transaction rate was causing twice as many disk I/O's to the backend DMX