hi all I just setup this test box on OI. It has a couple of X25Ms, 80GB and eight 2TB drives, two of them Hitachi Deskstar 7k2 drives and the other six WD Green. I have done some tests on this with mirrors to compare the performance and those tests conclude that the Hitachi drives are 25% or so faster. Now, installing a Bacula storage agent on the OI box, I see from iostat -xd that it looks like the WD Green drives are running in circles around the Deskstar drives. I really can't beleive why. Anyone here that has an idea of why this should be happening?
See below for iostat output. 2 second snap extended device statistics device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b cmdk0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 cmdk1 0.0 163.6 0.0 20603.7 1.6 0.5 12.9 24 24 fd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 sd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 sd1 0.5 140.3 0.3 2426.3 0.0 1.0 7.2 0 14 sd2 0.0 138.3 0.0 2476.3 0.0 1.5 10.6 0 18 sd3 0.0 303.9 0.0 2633.8 0.0 0.4 1.3 0 7 sd4 0.5 306.9 0.3 2555.8 0.0 0.4 1.2 0 7 sd5 1.0 308.5 0.5 2579.7 0.0 0.3 1.0 0 7 sd6 1.0 304.9 0.5 2352.1 0.0 0.3 1.1 1 7 sd7 1.0 298.9 0.5 2764.5 0.0 0.6 2.0 0 13 sd8 1.0 304.9 0.5 2400.8 0.0 0.3 0.9 0 6 iostat -xd (with collected stats) extended device statistics device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b cmdk0 0.4 1.2 24.2 21.4 0.0 0.0 1.9 0 0 cmdk1 0.1 5.7 3.7 709.6 0.1 0.0 12.5 1 1 fd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 982.8 0 0 sd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 sd1 0.5 6.5 46.8 248.2 0.0 0.0 6.0 0 1 sd2 0.5 6.5 46.5 248.2 0.0 0.0 6.0 0 1 sd3 0.5 9.5 46.6 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0 1 sd4 0.5 9.5 46.6 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0 1 sd5 0.5 9.5 46.6 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 0 1 sd6 0.5 9.5 46.5 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0 1 sd7 0.5 9.5 46.6 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 0 1 sd8 0.5 9.5 46.6 248.0 0.0 0.0 2.5 0 1 Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss