[zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Gray Carper
Hey, all! We've recently used six x4500 Thumpers, all publishing ~28TB iSCSI targets over ip-multipathed 10GB ethernet, to build a ~150TB ZFS pool on an x4200 head node. In trying to discover optimal ZFS pool construction settings, we've run a number of iozone tests, so I thought I'd share them

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Gray Carper
Howdy! Sounds good. We'll upgrade to 1.1 (b101) as soon as it is released, re-run our battery of tests, and see where we stand. Thanks! -Gray On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:47 PM, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Gray Carper wrote: > >> Hello again! (And h

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Gray Carper
14, 2008 at 8:10 PM, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Gray Carper wrote: > >> Hey, all! >> >> We've recently used six x4500 Thumpers, all publishing ~28TB iSCSI >> targets over ip-multipathed 10GB ethernet, to build a ~150TB ZFS pool on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Gray Carper
irectory integration fixes, but this sounds like another reason to be excited about it. Maybe this is a discussion that should be tabled until we are able to upgrade? -Gray On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Gray Carper wrote: > >> Hey

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Gray Carper
those a shot and see if they yield performance enhancements. -Gray On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Gray Carper wrote: > >> >> So, how concerned should we be about the low scores here and there? Any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-15 Thread Gray Carper
ultiple ZFS filesystems, each with its own recordsize, quota, permissions, NFS/CIFS shares, etc. I think that about covers the high-level stuff. If there's any area you want to dive deeper into, fire away! -Gray On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Brent Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-16 Thread Gray Carper
case here, I would be surprized if a general > config would cover all, though it might do with some luck. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-16 Thread Gray Carper
ually need replication. (Which begs the question: Why build an identical 150TB system to support that? Good question. I think we'll reevaluate. ;>) -Gray On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Gray Carper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > Very valuable advice here (an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-20 Thread Gray Carper
age? >> >> -- >> -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and >> Networking- >> ___ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

[zfs-discuss] Lackluster ZFS performance trials using various ZIL and L2ARC configurations...

2009-01-14 Thread Gray Carper
mendations for SSD-performant controllers that have great OpenSolaris driver support? Thanks! -Gray -- Gray Carper MSIS Technical Services University of Michigan Medical School gcar...@umich.edu | skype: graycarper | 734.418.8506 http://www.umms.med.umic

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lackluster ZFS performance trials using various ZIL and L2ARC configurations...

2009-01-15 Thread Gray Carper
SDs out of the chassis, but leave the 32GB SSD in. -Gray On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Will Murnane wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:36, Gray Carper wrote: > > In the third test, we rebuilt the ZFS pool with the ZIL on a 32GB SSD and > > the L2ARC on four 80GB SSDs. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lackluster ZFS performance trials using various ZIL and L2ARC configurations...

2009-01-15 Thread Gray Carper
D'oh - I take that back. Upon re-reading, I expect that you weren't indicting MLC drives generally, just the JMicron-controlled ones. It looks like we aren't suffering from those, though. -Gray On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Gray Carper wrote: > Hey there, Will! Thanks f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lackluster ZFS performance trials using various ZIL and L2ARC configurations...

2009-01-15 Thread Gray Carper
L2ARC, though? Thanks! -Gray On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15 at 15:36, Gray Carper wrote: > >> Hey, all! >> >> Using iozone (with the sequential read, sequential write, random read, >> and >> random write