Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Brent Jones wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:55 PM, "Steffen Plotner" >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in >> particularly, and found that zvol write perf

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Brent Jones
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:55 PM, "Steffen Plotner" > wrote: > > Hello, > > I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in > particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at > 1MB blocksize writes. I th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Steffen Plotner
-Original Message- From: Ross Walker [mailto:rswwal...@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 12/31/2009 12:35 AM To: Steffen Plotner Cc: Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130 Been there. ZVOLs were changed a while ago to make each operation synchronous so to provide

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:55 PM, "Steffen Plotner" wrote: Hello, I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at 1MB blocksize writes. I then teste

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2009-12-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:55 PM, "Steffen Plotner" wrote: Hello, I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at 1MB blocksize writes. I then tested the underlying zfs file system with the same te

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2009-12-30 Thread Brent Jones
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Steffen Plotner wrote: > Hello, > > I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in > particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at > 1MB blocksize writes. I then tested the underlying zfs file system with the > same t

[zfs-discuss] zvol (slow) vs file (fast) performance snv_130

2009-12-30 Thread Steffen Plotner
Hello, I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at 1MB blocksize writes. I then tested the underlying zfs file system with the same test and got 121MB/s. Is there any way to fix this? I really woul