Re[9]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Friday, May 19, 2006, 3:53:35 PM, you wrote: RBPE> Robert Milkowski writes: >> Hello Roch, >> >> Monday, May 15, 2006, 3:23:14 PM, you wrote: >> >> RBPE> The question put forth is whether the ZFS 128K blocksize is sufficient >> RBPE> to saturate a regular disk. There is great

Re[9]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-23 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Monday, May 22, 2006, 3:42:41 PM, you wrote: RBPE> Robert Says: RBPE> Just to be sure - you did reconfigure system to actually allow larger RBPE> IO sizes? RBPE> Sure enough, I messed up (I had no tuning to get the above data); So RBPE> 1 MB was my max transfer sizes. Using

Re: Re[7]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-22 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Robert Says: Just to be sure - you did reconfigure system to actually allow larger IO sizes? Sure enough, I messed up (I had no tuning to get the above data); So 1 MB was my max transfer sizes. Using 8MB I now see: Bytes Elapse of phys IO Size Sent 8 MB; 357

Re: Re[7]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-19 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Robert Milkowski writes: > Hello Roch, > > Monday, May 15, 2006, 3:23:14 PM, you wrote: > > RBPE> The question put forth is whether the ZFS 128K blocksize is sufficient > RBPE> to saturate a regular disk. There is great body of evidence that shows > RBPE> that the bigger the write sizes a

Re[7]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Monday, May 15, 2006, 3:23:14 PM, you wrote: RBPE> The question put forth is whether the ZFS 128K blocksize is sufficient RBPE> to saturate a regular disk. There is great body of evidence that shows RBPE> that the bigger the write sizes and matching large FS clustersize lead RBPE> to

Re: Re[5]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-15 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
The question put forth is whether the ZFS 128K blocksize is sufficient to saturate a regular disk. There is great body of evidence that shows that the bigger the write sizes and matching large FS clustersize lead to more throughput. The counter point is that ZFS schedules it's I/O like nothing

Re[5]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Robert, Sunday, May 14, 2006, 10:55:42 PM, you wrote: RM> Hello Roch, RM> Friday, May 12, 2006, 5:31:10 PM, you wrote: RBPE>> Robert Milkowski writes: >>> Hello Roch, >>> >>> Friday, May 12, 2006, 2:28:59 PM, you wrote: >>> >>> RBPE> Hi Robert, >>> >>> RBPE> Could you try 35 con

Re[4]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Friday, May 12, 2006, 5:31:10 PM, you wrote: RBPE> Robert Milkowski writes: >> Hello Roch, >> >> Friday, May 12, 2006, 2:28:59 PM, you wrote: >> >> RBPE> Hi Robert, >> >> RBPE> Could you try 35 concurrent dd each issuing 128K I/O ? >> RBPE> That would be closer to how ZFS w

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-12 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Robert Milkowski writes: > Hello Roch, > > Friday, May 12, 2006, 2:28:59 PM, you wrote: > > RBPE> Hi Robert, > > RBPE> Could you try 35 concurrent dd each issuing 128K I/O ? > RBPE> That would be closer to how ZFS would behave. > > You mean to UFS? > > ok, I did try and I get about

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-12 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Friday, May 12, 2006, 2:28:59 PM, you wrote: RBPE> Hi Robert, RBPE> Could you try 35 concurrent dd each issuing 128K I/O ? RBPE> That would be closer to how ZFS would behave. You mean to UFS? ok, I did try and I get about 8-9MB/s with about 1100 IO/s (w/s). But what does it proof?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-12 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Hi Robert, Could you try 35 concurrent dd each issuing 128K I/O ? That would be closer to how ZFS would behave. -r Robert Milkowski writes: > Well I have just tested UFS on the same disk. > > bash-3.00# newfs -v /dev/rdsk/c5t50E0119495A0d0s0 > newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rd

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Due to 128KB limit in ZFS it can't saturate disks

2006-05-12 Thread Robert Milkowski
Well I have just tested UFS on the same disk. bash-3.00# newfs -v /dev/rdsk/c5t50E0119495A0d0s0 newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c5t50E0119495A0d0s0: (y/n)? y mkfs -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c5t50E0119495A0d0s0 143358287 128 48 8192 1024 16 1 1 8192 t 0 -1 1 1024 n Warning: 5810 sec