Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Jun 2 at 20:49, Erik Trimble wrote: Nope. In terms of actual, obtainable IOPS, a 7200RPM drive isn't going to be able to do more than 200 under ideal conditions, and should be able to manage 50 under anything other than the pedantically worst-case situation. That's only about a 50% dev

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > So is there a way to read these real I/Ops numbers ? > > iostat is reporting 600-800 I/Ops peak (1 second sample) for these > 7200 RPM SATA drives. If the drives are doing aggregation, then how to > tell what is really going on ? I've always as

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Kraus
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 6/2/2011 5:12 PM, Jens Elkner wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:17:08PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >> >>> Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/2/2011 5:12 PM, Jens Elkner wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:17:08PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: seek time + ((60 / RPMs) / 2))] A truly sequential IOPs is: (60 / RPMs)

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:17:08PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: > Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: > seek time + ((60 / RPMs) / 2))] > > A truly sequential IOPs is: > (60 / RPMs) / 2) > > For that series of dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble > > Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: > > seek time + ((60 / RPMs) / 2))] > > 1 Random IOPs takes [8.5ms + 4.13ms] = 12.6ms, which translates to 78

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Here's how you calculate (average) how long a random IOPs takes: > > seek time + ((60 / RPMs) / 2))] > > A truly sequential IOPs is: > > (60 / RPMs) / 2) > > For that series of drives, seek time averages 8.5ms (per Seagate). > > So, you get >

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Erik Trimble
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:54 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: > I figure this group will know better than any other I have contact > with, is 700-800 I/Ops reasonable for a 7200 RPM SATA drive (1 TB Sun > badged Seagate ST31000N in a J4400) ? I have a resilver running and am > seeing about 700-800 writes/se

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Tuomas Leikola wrote: >> I have a resilver running and am >> seeing about 700-800 writes/sec. on the hot spare as it resilvers. > > IIRC resilver works in block birth order (write order) which is > commonly more-or-less sequential unless the fs is fragmented. So it

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Tuomas Leikola
> I have a resilver running and am > seeing about 700-800 writes/sec. on the hot spare as it resilvers. IIRC resilver works in block birth order (write order) which is commonly more-or-less sequential unless the fs is fragmented. So it might or might not be. I think you cannot get that kind of per

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Tomas Ă–gren
On 01 June, 2011 - Paul Kraus sent me these 0,9K bytes: > I figure this group will know better than any other I have contact > with, is 700-800 I/Ops reasonable for a 7200 RPM SATA drive (1 TB Sun > badged Seagate ST31000N in a J4400) ? I have a resilver running and am > seeing about 700-800 w

[zfs-discuss] SATA disk perf question

2011-06-01 Thread Paul Kraus
I figure this group will know better than any other I have contact with, is 700-800 I/Ops reasonable for a 7200 RPM SATA drive (1 TB Sun badged Seagate ST31000N in a J4400) ? I have a resilver running and am seeing about 700-800 writes/sec. on the hot spare as it resilvers. There is no other I/