Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-06 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Your finding for random reads with or without NCQ match my findings: http:// > blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/ncq_performance_analysis > > Disabling NCQ looks like a very tiny win for the multi-stream read case. I > found a much bigger win, but i was doing RAID-0 inst

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-06 Thread eric kustarz
On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> FYI, you can use the '-c' option to compare results from various >> runs and >> have one single report to look at. > > That's a handy feature. I've added a couple of such comparisons: > http://acc.ohsu.edu/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-05 Thread Ross
Gaaah, no idea what happened to that. It looked ok in preview, but it seems the message board is adding odd characters to my text. Trying again: RAID-Z2 Disks per setSetsWrite PerformanceRead PerformanceRead IOPS 46...1...44...1...

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-05 Thread Ross
There are *lots* of options for configuring a Thumper, what you choose really depends on the kind of performance you want. I found these sites incredibly helpful in working out what was best for us: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_raid_recommendations_space_performance http://lindsay.at/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-04 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > FYI, you can use the '-c' option to compare results from various runs and > have one single report to look at. That's a handy feature. I've added a couple of such comparisons: http://acc.ohsu.edu/~hakansom/thumper_bench.html Marion _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-02 Thread eric kustarz
On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk >> eithr 5*9 or >> 9*5, with 1 hot spare. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) > > We're d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-01 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/02/2008 à 11:17:14-0800, Marion Hakanson a écrit > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk eithr 5*9 > > or > > 9*5, with 1 hot spare. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-01 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk eithr 5*9 or > 9*5, with 1 hot spare. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) We're deploying a new Thumper w/750GB drives, and did space vs performance

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'd take a look at bonnie++ > http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html#bonnie++ Also filebench: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench You'll see the most difference between 5x9 and 9x5 in small random reads: http://blogs.sun.com/relling/e

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Kyle McDonald
Albert Shih wrote: > What's kind of pool you use with 46 disk ? (46=2*23 and 23 is prime number > that's mean I can make raidz with 6 or 7 or any number of disk). > > Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk eithr 5*9 or 9*5, with 1 hot spare. -Kyle > Regards. > > -

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Tim
On 1/30/08, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the tips... > > How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) > > I've use > > mkfile 10g > > for write and I've got same perf with 5*9 or 9*5. > > Have you some advice about tool like iozone ? > > Regards. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/01/2008 à 11:01:35-0500, Kyle McDonald a écrit > Albert Shih wrote: >> What's kind of pool you use with 46 disk ? (46=2*23 and 23 is prime number >> that's mean I can make raidz with 6 or 7 or any number of disk). >> >> > Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk ei

[zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-01-30 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've a Sun X4500 with 48 disk of 750Go The server come with Solaris install on two disk. That's mean I've got 46 disk for ZFS. When I look the defautl configuration of the zpool zpool create -f zpool1 raidz c0t0d0 c1t0d0 c4t0d0 c6t0d0 c7t0d0 zpool add -f zpool1 raidz c0t1d0 c1t1d0 c4t1d