Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS core contributor nominations

2009-02-02 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
+1. I would like to nominate roch.bourbonn...@sun.com for his work on improving the performance of ZFS over the last few years. thanks, -neel On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Neil Perrin wrote: > Looks reasonable > +1 > > Neil. > > On 02/02/09 08:55, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: >> The time has come to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS performance with Oracle

2007-03-28 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
> > We are currently recommending separate (ZFS) file systems for redo logs. > Did you try that? Or did you go straight to a separate UFS file system for > redo logs? > > I'd answered this directly in email originally. > > The answer was that yes, I tested using zfs for logpools among a numbe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance Tuning - ZFS, Oracle and T2000

2007-08-20 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
Damian, Are you using compression=on? There was a bug in the past (fixed now) where if compression was turned on, it was being computed by a single thread. The ZFS team fixed the "user data" part of it (i.e user data is compressed in parallel now), but the meta data part is still compressed by one

[zfs-discuss] arcstat - a tool to print ARC statistics

2007-09-18 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I wrote a simple tool to print out the ARC statistics exported via kstat. Details at http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_arc_statistics -neel -- --- Neelakanth Nadgir PAE Performance And Availability Eng ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] io:::start and zfs filenames?

2007-09-25 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
io:::start probe does not seem to get zfs filenames in args[2]->fi_pathname. Any ideas how to get this info? -neel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] io:::start and zfs filenames?

2007-09-26 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
of(args[0]->b_vp->v_path) does not work either. > > Use the zfs r/w function entry points for now. > > What sayeth the ZFS team regarding the use of a stable DTrace > provider with their file system? > > Thanks, > /jim &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intent Log removal

2007-11-12 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
You could always replace this device by another one of same, or bigger size using zpool replace. -neel Cyril Plisko wrote: > Hi ! > > I played recently with Gigabyte i-RAM card (which is basically an SSD) > as a log device for a ZFS pool. However, when I tried to remove it - I need > to give the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Periodic flush

2008-03-26 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > My application processes thousands of files sequentially, reading > input files, and outputting new files. I am using Solaris 10U4. > While running the application in a verbose mode, I see that it runs > very fast but pauses about every 7 seconds for a second or two.

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS Formatted ZVOLs and Oracle Databases / MDBMS

2008-03-27 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
Brandon Wilson wrote: > Hi all, here's a couple questions. > > Has anyone run oracle databases off of a UFS formatted ZVOL? If so, how does > it compare in speed to UFS direct io? > I have not, but I suspect the performance will be worse than pure zfs and ufsdio. For databases, you should try t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Periodic flush

2008-03-27 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Neelakanth Nadgir wrote: >> When you experience the pause at the application level, >> do you see an increase in writes to disk? This might the >> regular syncing of the transaction group to disk. > > If I use 'zpool io

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle on ZFS

2006-08-30 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I have seen the best oracle performance on ZFS by 1. match the zfs record size to oracle db_block_size 2. use the default 128k record size for oracle logs. 3. If possible use a separate zpool for the oracle logs. This is especially true if your workload has a high write component to it. Two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Info on OLTP Perf

2006-09-25 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
We did an experiment where we placed the logs on UFS+DIO and the rest on ZFS. This was a write heavy benchmark. We did not see much gain in performance by doing that (around 5%). I suspect you would be willing to trade 5% for all the benefits of ZFS. Moreover this penalty is for the current versio

[zfs-discuss] Recommendations for ZFS and databases

2006-09-25 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I just posted a blog on recommendations for ZFS and databases. This is based of the work that Roch and I (and other members of PAE) did. http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_and_databases Hope that helps -neel -- --- Neelakanth Nadgir PAE Performance And Availability Eng

[zfs-discuss] destroy pool by id?

2006-09-27 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
Is it possible to destroy a pool by ID? I created two pools with the same name, and want to destroy one of them -neel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroy pool by id?

2006-09-27 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
ran it to completion the next time around. 2. Some of the disks I used, were part of a zpool of the same name, but on a different system. I created a zpool containing those disks and some new disks I am not sure if I can reproduce what I saw. -neel > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:53

Re: [zfs-discuss] destroy pool by id?

2006-09-27 Thread Neelakanth Nadgir
I was trying to import the pool, but got an error that there wee 2 pools with the same name (in exported state) and I had to import by "id". Thus I wanted to destroy the other pool -neel Sometime ago, Darren Dunham said: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:53:32AM -0700, Neelaka