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Today I updated the firmware on my StorageTek 2540 to the latest recommended version and am seeing radically difference performance when testing with iozone than I did in February of 2008. I am using Solaris 10 U5 with all the latest patches. This is the performance achieved (on a 32GB file) in February last year: KB reclen write rewrite read reread 33554432

Hello, I''m using Xen 3.0 in a Debian Linux Etch / Dell PowerEdge 860 / 4GB RAM / Pentium 4 Dual Core 3Ghz. The machine is using a RAID Controller SAS 5iR, configured with two 500GB disks in RAID-1 (mirroring). I was getting I/O throughput problems, but then I''ve searched the Internet and find a solution saying that I needed to enable the write cache on the RAID controller. Well,

Hi, I''m running SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-36 64-bit and in [b]/etc/system[/b] I put: [b]set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1[/b] And after rebooting, I get the message: [b]sorry, variable ''zfs_nocacheflush'' is not defined in the ''zfs'' module[/b] So is this variable not available in the Solaris kernel? I''m getting really poor

5-nodes server and 1 node client are connected by gigabits Ethernet. #] iozone -r 32k -r 512k -s 8G KB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread 8388608 32 10559 9792 62435 62260 8388608 512 63012 63409 63409 63138 It seems 32k write/rewrite performance are very

Under Solaris 10 on a 4 core Sun Ultra 40 with 20GB RAM, I am setting up a Sun StorageTek 2540 with 12 300GB 15K RPM SAS drives and connected via load-shared 4Gbit FC links. This week I have tried many different configurations, using firmware managed RAID, ZFS managed RAID, and with the controller cache enabled or disabled. My objective is to obtain the best single-file write performance.

A question regarding zfs_nocacheflush: The Evil Tuning Guide says to only enable this if every device is protected by NVRAM. However, is it safe to enable zfs_nocacheflush when I also have local drives (the internal system drives) using ZFS, in particular if the write cache is disabled on those drives? What I have is a local zfs pool from the free space on the internal drives, so I''m

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i have a system connected to an external DAS (SCSI) array, using ZFS. the array has an nvram write cache, but it honours SCSI cache flush commands by flushing the nvram to disk. the array has no way to disable this behaviour. a well-known behaviour of ZFS is that it often issues cache flush commands to storage in order to ensure data

Is it true that Solaris 10 u4 does not have any of the nice ZIL controls that exist in the various recent Open Solaris flavors? I would like to move my ZIL to solid state storage, but I fear I can''t do it until I have another update. Heck, I would be happy to just be able to turn the ZIL off to see how my NFS on ZFS performance is effected before spending the $''s. Anyone

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 15:37:45AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:21:11AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:24:51PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: >> > Btrfs cannot handle having logically non-contiguous requests submitted. For >> > example if you have >> > >> > Logical: [0-4095][HOLE][8192-12287]

Hi Matt, Can you please provide us with more information? 1. what version of glusterfs are you using 2. Was the iozone run as root or user? a. if user, did it have the required permissions? 3. steps to reproduce the problem 4. Any other errors related to stripe in the clinet log? With regards, Shishir ________________________________________ From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org

Hi, Well I have a freshly built system with ZFS raidz. Intel P4 2.4 Ghz 1GB Ram Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (2) Intel Dual Port 1Gbit nics I have (5) 300GB disks in a Raidz1 with Zfs. I''ve created a couple of FS on this. /export/downloads /export/music /export/musicraw I''ve shared these out as well. First with ZFS ''zfs

Hi, I am measuring the performance of my newly bought NAS with IOZone. The NAS is of an embedded linux with samba installed. (CPU is Intel Atom) The IOZone reported that write performance to be over 1GBps while the file size less or equals to 1GB. Since the nic is 1Gbps, the maximum speed is supposed to be 125MiBps at most. The testing report of IOZone is amazing. Later I found that If the

Hi Jeff, On 07/03/2010 03:58 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Hi, > > Running iozone or fs_mark with fsync enabled, the performance of CFQ is > far worse than that of deadline for enterprise class storage when dealing > with file sizes of 8MB or less. I used the following command line as a > representative test case: > > fs_mark -S 1 -D 10000 -N 100000 -d /mnt/test/fs_mark -s

Here are my results: Summary: I am not able to reproduce the problem, IOW I get relatively equivalent numbers for sequential IO when going against 3.10.5 or 3.12.0 Next steps: - Could you pass along your volfile (both for a brick and also the client vol file (from /var/lib/glusterd/vols/<yourvolname>/patchy.tcp-fuse.vol and a brick vol file from the same place) - I want to check

This may not be a ZFS issue, so please bear with me! I have 4 internal drives that I have striped/mirrored with ZFS and have an application server which is reading/writing to hundreds of thousands of files on it, thousands of files @ a time. If 1 client uses the app server, the transaction (reading/writing to ~80 files) takes about 200 ms. If I have about 80 clients attempting it @ once, it can

Hi all, Can anyone please steer me in the right direction with this one? I've searched the net, but couldn't find a clear answer. How do I actually generate graphs from iozone, using OpenOffice? Every website I've been to simply mentions that iozone can output an xls file which can be used in MS Excel to generate a 3D graph. But, I can't see how it's actually done. Can anyone

Greetings, Last April, in this discussion... http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=143517 ...we never found out how (or if) the Sun 6120 (T4) array can be configured to ignore cache flush (sync-cache) requests from hosts. We''re about to reconfigure a 6120 here for use with ZFS (S10U4), and the evil tuneable zfs_nocacheflush is not going to serve us well (there is a ZFS

Greetings Gentlemen, I''m currently testing a new setup for a ZFS based storage system with dedup enabled. The system is setup on OI 148, which seems quite stable w/ dedup enabled (compared to the OpenSolaris snv_136 build I used before). One issue I ran into, however, is quite baffling: With iozone set to 32 threads, ZFS''s ARC seems to consume all available memory, making

Hello: Sorry for asking iozone ques in this mailing list but couldn't find any mailing list on iozone... In IOZone, is there a way to configure # of outstanding requests client sends to server side? Something on the lines of IOMeter option "Number of outstanding requests". Thanks a lot!

Hi, We''re doing some benchmarking at a customer (using IOzone) and for some specific small block random tests, performance of their X4500 is very poor (~1.2 MB/s aggregate throughput for a 5+1 RAIDZ). Specifically, the test is the IOzone multithreaded throughput test of an 8GB file size and 8KB record size, with the server physmem''d to 2GB. I noticed a couple of peculiar