Re: [zfs-discuss] Terrible zfs performance under NFS load

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Fisher
Stephen Stogner wrote: Hello, We have a S10U5 server sharing with zfs sharing up NFS shares. While using the nfs mount for a log destination for syslog for 20 or so busy mail servers we have noticed that the throughput becomes severly degraded shortly. I have tried disabling the zil,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Terrible zfs performance under NFS load

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Fisher
Stephen Stogner wrote: True we could have all the syslog data be directed towards the host but the underlying issue remains the same with the performance hit. We have used nfs shares for log hosts and mail hosts and we are looking towards using a zfs based mail store with nfs moutnts from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 hang when drive removed

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Fisher
Richard Elling wrote: I was able to reproduce this in b93, but might have a different interpretation of the conditions. More below... Ross Smith wrote: A little more information today. I had a feeling that ZFS would continue quite some time before giving an error, and today I've shown

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Fisher
Let's stop feeding the troll... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Elling Sent: Thu 11/8/2007 11:45 PM To: can you guess? Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS can you guess? wrote: CERN was using relatively cheap disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS scaling

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Fisher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Loewe I'm using a Sun Fire X4500 Thumper and trying to get some sense of the best performance I can get from it with zfs. I'm running without mirroring or raid, and have checksumming turned off. I built the zfs

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: Slow write speed to ZFS pool (via NFS)

2007-06-23 Thread Paul Fisher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Garner So it is expected behavior on my Nexenta alpha 7 server for Sun's nfsd to stop responding after 2 hours of running a bittorrent client over nfs4 from a linux client, causing zfs snapshots to hang and requiring

RE: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Paul Fisher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:30 AM I would prefer something like 15+1 :) I want ZFS to be able to detect and correct errors, but I do not need to squeeze all the performance out of it (I'll be using it as a home

[zfs-discuss] Experiences with zfs/iscsi on T2000s and X4500s?

2007-04-28 Thread Paul Fisher
I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone that has experience running large zfs pools on T2000s created out of vdevs provided as iscsi targets from X4500s (Thumpers). Please respond with both positive or negative experiences, either on or off list. thanks in advance, paul

[zfs-discuss] Performance of zpool import?

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Fisher
Has anyone done benchmarking on the scalability and performance of zpool import in terms of the number of devices in the pool on recent opensolaris builds? In other words, what would the relative performance be for zpool import for the following three pool configurations on multi-pathed 4G FC

RE: [zfs-discuss] Performance of zpool import?

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Fisher
From: Eric Schrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:05 PM The slow part of zpool import is actually discovering the pool configuration. This involves examining every device on the system (or every device within a 'import -d' directory) and seeing if it has

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS or UFS - what to do?

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Fisher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 3:38 PM Yes, I agree. I'm sorry I don't have the data that Jim presented at FAST, but he did present actual data. Richard Elling (I believe it was Richard) has also posted some