Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Nau
Hi Bob > I don't know what the request pattern from filebench looks like but it seems > like your ZEUS RAM devices are not keeping up or > else many requests are bypassing the ZEUS RAM devices. > > Note that very large synchronous writes will bypass your ZEUS RAM device and > go directly to a l

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Thomas Nau wrote: Tim the client is identical as the server but no SAS drives attached. Also right now only one 1gbit Intel NIC Is available I don't know what the request pattern from filebench looks like but it seems like your ZEUS RAM devices are not keeping up or else

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Nau
Tim the client is identical as the server but no SAS drives attached. Also right now only one 1gbit Intel NIC Is available Thomas Am 18.08.2011 um 17:49 schrieb Tim Cook : > What are the specs on the client? > > On Aug 18, 2011 10:28 AM, "Thomas Nau" wrote: > > Dear all. > > We finally got al

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Tim Cook
What are the specs on the client? On Aug 18, 2011 10:28 AM, "Thomas Nau" wrote: > Dear all. > We finally got all the parts for our new fileserver following several > recommendations we got over this list. We use > > Dell R715, 96GB RAM, dual 8-core Opterons > 1 10GE Intel dual-port NIC > 2 LSI 920

[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Nau
Dear all. We finally got all the parts for our new fileserver following several recommendations we got over this list. We use Dell R715, 96GB RAM, dual 8-core Opterons 1 10GE Intel dual-port NIC 2 LSI 9205-8e SAS controllers 2 DataON DNS-1600 JBOD chassis 46 Seagate constellation SAS drives 2 STEC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2011-05-10 Thread Luke Lonergan
Robert, > I belive it's not solved yet but you may want to try with > latest nevada and see if there's a difference. It's fixed in the upcoming Solaris 10 U3 and also in Solaris Express post build 47 I think. - Luke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-11-02 Thread Luke Lonergan
Roch, On 11/2/06 12:51 AM, "Roch - PAE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one is not yet fixed : > 6415647 Sequential writing is jumping Yep - I mistook this one for another problem with drive firmware on pre-revenue units. Since Robert has a customer release X4500 it doesn't have the firmware

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-11-02 Thread Roch - PAE
How much memory in the V210 ? UFS will recycle it's own pages while creating files that are big. ZFS working against a large heap of free memory will cache the data (why not?). The problem is that ZFS does not know when to stop. During the subsequent memory/cache reclaim, ZFS is potentially not

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-11-02 Thread Roch - PAE
Luke Lonergan writes: > Robert, > > > I belive it's not solved yet but you may want to try with > > latest nevada and see if there's a difference. > > It's fixed in the upcoming Solaris 10 U3 and also in Solaris Express > post build 47 I think. > > - Luke > This one is not yet fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-31 Thread eric kustarz
Jay Grogan wrote: Ran 3 test using mkfile to create a 6GB on a ufs and ZFS file system. command ran mkfile -v 6gb /ufs/tmpfile Test 1 UFS mounted LUN (2m2.373s) Test 2 UFS mounted LUN with directio option (5m31.802s) Test 3 ZFS LUN (Single LUN in a pool) (3m13.126s) Sunfire V120 1 Qlogic 2

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-31 Thread Luke Lonergan
Robert, On 10/31/06 3:12 PM, "Robert Milkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost definitely not true. I did some simple test today with U3 beta > on thumper and still can observe "jumping" writes with sequential > 'dd'. We crossed posts. There are some firmware issues with the Hitachi disks

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Luke, Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 6:09:23 PM, you wrote: LL> Robert, LL> >> I belive it's not solved yet but you may want to try with >> latest nevada and see if there's a difference. LL> It's fixed in the upcoming Solaris 10 U3 and also in Solaris Express LL> post build 47 I think. Al

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-31 Thread Luke Lonergan
Robert, > I belive it's not solved yet but you may want to try with > latest nevada and see if there's a difference. It's fixed in the upcoming Solaris 10 U3 and also in Solaris Express post build 47 I think. - Luke ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jay, Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 3:31:54 AM, you wrote: JG> Ran 3 test using mkfile to create a 6GB on a ufs and ZFS file system. JG> command ran mkfile -v 6gb /ufs/tmpfile JG> Test 1 UFS mounted LUN (2m2.373s) JG> Test 2 UFS mounted LUN with directio option (5m31.802s) JG> Test 3 ZFS LUN

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-30 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 30, 2006, at 10:45 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Also, stacking it on top of an existing RAID setup is kinda missing the entire point! Everyone keeps saying this, but I don't think it is missing the point at all. Checksumming and all the other goodies still work fine and you can ru

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-30 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 10/30/06, Jay Grogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ran 3 test using mkfile to create a 6GB on a ufs and ZFS file system. command ran mkfile -v 6gb /ufs/tmpfile Test 1 UFS mounted LUN (2m2.373s) Test 2 UFS mounted LUN with directio option (5m31.802s) Test 3 ZFS LUN (Single LUN in a pool) (3m13

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance Question

2006-10-30 Thread Jay Grogan
Ran 3 test using mkfile to create a 6GB on a ufs and ZFS file system. command ran mkfile -v 6gb /ufs/tmpfile Test 1 UFS mounted LUN (2m2.373s) Test 2 UFS mounted LUN with directio option (5m31.802s) Test 3 ZFS LUN (Single LUN in a pool) (3m13.126s) Sunfire V120 1 Qlogic 2340 Solaris 10 06/06