Re: [zfs-discuss] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I just recently built an OpenIndiana 151a7 system that is currently 1/2 PB that will be expanded to 1 PB as we collect imaging data for the Human Connectome Project at Washington University in St. Louis. It is very much like your use case as this is an offsite backup system that will write once

Re: [zfs-discuss] [discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I've had perfect success with the SuperMicro SC847E25-RJOB1 It has two back planes and holds 45 3.5 inch drives. It's built as a JBOD so it has everything that is needed. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Peter Tripp pe...@psych.columbia.eduwrote: Hi folks, I'm in the market for a couple of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZIL faster

2012-10-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
wrote: Edward Ned Harvey (**opensolarisisdeadlongliveopens**olaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-bounces@**opensolaris.orgzfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org[mailto: zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Schweiss, Chip How can I determine for sure that my ZIL is my bottleneck

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZIL faster

2012-10-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Again thanks for the input and clarifications. I would like to clarify the numbers I was talking about with ZiL performance specs I was seeing talked about on other forums. Right now I'm getting streaming performance of sync writes at about 1 Gbit/S. My target is closer to 10Gbit/S. If I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden and Dramatic Performance Drop-off

2012-10-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Sounds similar to the problem discussed here: http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/05/adjusting-drive-timeouts-with-mdb-on-solaris-or-openindiana/ Check 'iostat -xn' and see if one or more disks is stuck at 100%. -Chip On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Cindy Swearingen

[zfs-discuss] Making ZIL faster

2012-10-03 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I'm in the planing stages of a rather larger ZFS system to house approximately 1 PB of data. I have only one system with SSDs for L2ARC and ZIL, The ZIL seems to be the bottle neck for large bursts of data being written.I can't confirm this for sure, but the when throwing enough data at my