Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read performance degrades over a short time

2009-01-24 Thread Richard Elling
Ray Galvin wrote: > Thanks for the information Richard! > > The output of running arcstat.pl is included below. A potentially > interesting thing I see is that the "Prefetch miss percentage" is > 100% during this test. I would have thought that a large sequential > read test would be an easy ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read performance degrades over a short time

2009-01-24 Thread Ray Galvin
Thanks for the information Richard! The output of running arcstat.pl is included below. A potentially interesting thing I see is that the "Prefetch miss percentage" is 100% during this test. I would have thought that a large sequential read test would be an easy case for prefetch prediction.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs read performance degrades over a short time

2009-01-24 Thread Richard Elling
Ray Galvin wrote: > I appear to be seeing the performance of a local ZFS file system degrading > over a short period of time. > > My system configuration: > > 32 bit Athlon 1800+ CPU > 1 Gbyte of RAM > SInce you only have 1 GByte of RAM, I would suspect the ARC is filling and beco

[zfs-discuss] zfs read performance degrades over a short time

2009-01-23 Thread Ray Galvin
I appear to be seeing the performance of a local ZFS file system degrading over a short period of time. My system configuration: 32 bit Athlon 1800+ CPU 1 Gbyte of RAM Solaris 10 U6 SunOS filer 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc 2x250 GByte Western Digital WD2500JB