Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] poor zfs performance on my home server

2007-02-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Sascha, Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 6:45:30 AM, you wrote: SB> Am 13.02.2007 um 22:46 schrieb Ian Collins: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I switched my home server from Debian to Solaris. The main cause for >>> this step was stability and ZFS. >>> But now after the mig

Re: Re[6]: [zfs-discuss] Re: NFS/ZFS performance problems - txg_wait_open() deadlocks?

2007-02-14 Thread eric kustarz
ek> Have you increased the load on this machine? I have seen a similar ek> situation (new requests being blocked waiting for the sync thread to ek> finish), but that's only been when either 1) the hardware is broken ek> and taking too long or 2) the server is way overloaded. I don't thin

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS fragmentation

2007-02-14 Thread Leon Koll
Not sure is it related to the fragmentation, but I can say that serious performance degradation in my NFS/ZFS benchmarks [1] is a result of on-disk ZFS data layout. Read operations on directories (NFS3 readdirplus) are abnormally time consuming . That kills the server. After cold restart of the

[zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS benchmark of NFS/ZFS/B56 - please help to improve it!

2007-02-14 Thread Leon Koll
An update: Not sure is it related to the fragmentation, but I can say that serious performance degradation in my NFS/ZFS benchmarks is a result of on-disk ZFS data layout. Read operations on directories (NFS3 readdirplus) are abnormally time consuming . That kills the server. After cold restart

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor zfs performance on my home server

2007-02-14 Thread Ian Collins
Sascha Brechenmacher wrote: > > Am 13.02.2007 um 22:46 schrieb Ian Collins: > >> Looks like poor hardware, how was the pool built? Did you give ZFS the >> entire drive? >> >> On my nForce4 Athlon64 box with two 250G SATA drives, >> >> zpool status tank >> pool: tank >> state: ONLINE >> scrub

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS benchmark of NFS/ZFS/B56 - please help to improve it!

2007-02-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Leon, Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 10:35:05 AM, you wrote: LK> An update: LK> Not sure is it related to the fragmentation, but I can say that LK> serious performance degradation in my NFS/ZFS benchmarks is a LK> result of on-disk ZFS data layout. LK> Read operations on directories (NFS3 r

Re[8]: [zfs-discuss] Re: NFS/ZFS performance problems - txg_wait_open() deadlocks?

2007-02-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello eric, Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 9:50:29 AM, you wrote: >> >> ek> Have you increased the load on this machine? I have seen a >> similar >> ek> situation (new requests being blocked waiting for the sync >> thread to >> ek> finish), but that's only been when either 1) the hardware is

Re: [zfs-discuss] VxVM volumes in a zpool.

2007-02-14 Thread dudekula mastan
I don't think it is good to creat ZFS file system on VxVM volumes ( I feel, it is not possible to create ZFS file system on VxVM volumes - I 'm not sure ) -Masthan Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/18/07, Tan Shao Yi wrote: > Hi, > > Was wondering if anyone had experience working

[zfs-discuss] Re: How to backup a slice ? - newbie

2007-02-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zpool import pool: new_zpool id: 3042040702885268372 state: ONLINE action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. config: new_zpool ONLINE c0t2d0s6 ONLINE It shows that there is one filesystem available for import on one of my disks. Here is a list of

[zfs-discuss] Re: How to backup a slice ? - newbie

2007-02-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]I create the default storage pool during the install, but then when it reboots, the hostname/hostid has changed so I need to re-associate the pool. I know you're frustrated with this stuff, but once you've figured it out it really is very powerful. :-)[/i] If you read my contributions, I hav

Re: Re[8]: [zfs-discuss] Re: NFS/ZFS performance problems - txg_wait_open() deadlocks?

2007-02-14 Thread eric kustarz
I've been using it in another CR where destroying one of a snapshots was helping the performance. Nevertheless here it's on that server: Short period of time: bash-3.00# ./metaslab-6495013.d ^C Loops count value - Distribution - count -1 |

[zfs-discuss] Re: Managing ZFS - perspective from the intended users

2007-02-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
Matt, thanks for some examples and your understanding. While I am still quarreling to get a pool mounted, I still find some unexpected (at least in my legacy terms) behaviour: % zfs mount pool /export/home is a clear intention. Maybe too much of legacy ? % zpool import " can be imported us

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS on PC Based Hardware for NAS?

2007-02-14 Thread Eric Haycraft
I will also recommend using CF or an IDE drive for your boot drive. From there, I would simply setup a raidz with 4 of the drives. Since you have 8 available sata spaces, it would make sense to use 4 drives now in raidz with 3 data plus 1 parity drives giving you roughly 960GB of storage in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS fragmentation

2007-02-14 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Matty wrote: Howdy, I have seen a number of folks run into issues due to ZFS file system fragmentation, and was curious if anyone on team ZFS is working on this issue? Would it be possible to share with the list any changes that will be made to to help address fragmentation problems? We have s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Need help making lsof work with ZFS

2007-02-14 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: I did find zfs.h and libzfs.h (thanks Eric). However, when I try to compile the latest version (4.87C) of lsof it finds the following files missing: dmu.h zfs_acl.h zfs_debug.h zfs_rlock.h zil.h spa.h zfs_context.h zfs_dir.h zfs_vfsops.h zio.h txg.h zfs_ctldir.h zfs_ioct

[zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-14 Thread Eric Haycraft
I get around 100Mbits per second sustained on big files transferring to/from my Solaris/zfs box and Vista over samba. That is over gigabit ethernet through one switch and one router. I personally think it should be faster, but is probably just due to my network hardware and not samba or zfs sinc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Elling
Luke Scharf wrote: Dave Sneddon wrote: Can anyone shed any light on whether the actual software side of this can be achieved? Can I share my entire ZFS pool as a "folder" or "network drive" so WinXP can read it? Will this be fast enough to read/write to at DV speeds (25mbit/s)? Once the pool is