Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Mertol Ozyoney : Hi; You may be hitting a bottleneck at your HBA. Try using multiple HBA's or drive channels Mertol I'm pretty sure it's not a HBA issue. As I commented, my per-disk write throughput stayed pretty consistent for 4, 8 and 12 disk pools and varied between 80 and 90

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Bob Friesenhahn : On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, en...@businessgrade.com wrote: Hi. I've been doing some simple read/write tests using filebench on a mirrored pool. Essentially, I've been scaling up the number of disks in the pool before each test between 4, 8 and 12. I've noticed that f

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread Richard Elling
There is around a zillion possible reasons for this. In my experience, most folks don't or can't create enough load. Make sure you have enough threads creating work. Other than that, the scientific method would suggest creating experiments, making measurements, running regressions, etc. -- richa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi; You may be hitting a bottleneck at your HBA. Try using multiple HBA's or drive channels Mertol Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +90212335 Email mertol.ozyo...@sun.com -Original Message

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, en...@businessgrade.com wrote: Hi. I've been doing some simple read/write tests using filebench on a mirrored pool. Essentially, I've been scaling up the number of disks in the pool before each test between 4, 8 and 12. I've noticed that for individual disks, ZFS write per