Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-22 Thread Roch
However, I can't help but think that if my file server is compressing every data block that it writes that it would be able to write more data if it used a thread (or more) per core I would come out ahead. No arguments here. MT-hot compression was the design of ZFS from day one. A bug got

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 8/21/06, Richard Elling - PAE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done measurements of this in years, but...I'll wager that compression is memory bound, not CPU bound, for today'sservers.A system with low latency and high bandwidth memory will performwell (UltraSPARC-T1).Threading may not help

[zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread trevor pretty
Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. Q: What's the effect (if any) of only having on Floating Point Processor on Niagara when you turn on ZFS compression? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
On 8/20/06, trevor pretty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. Q: What's the effect (if any) of only having on Floating Point Processor on Niagara when you turn on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
On 8/20/06, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, trevor pretty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
Matthew, On 8/20/06 6:20 PM, Matthew Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was not the design, we're working on fixing this bug so that many threads will be used to do the compression. Is this also true of decompression? - Luke ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Sean Meighan
On our Niagara T2000 32x1000mhz box, 8 gigs ram, 4x68gig disk drives . we setup three drives as raidz with compression. all of our performance issues are gone. remember we receive ~150 million lines of ASCII and 2 million files per day . we have had zero performance issues since we 1)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Sean Meighan wrote: On our Niagara T2000 32x1000mhz box, 8 gigs ram, 4x68gig disk drives . we setup three drives as raidz with compression. all of our performance issues are gone. remember we receive ~150 million lines of ASCII and 2 million files per day . we have had

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:38:03PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote: Matthew, On 8/20/06 6:20 PM, Matthew Ahrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was not the design, we're working on fixing this bug so that many threads will be used to do the compression. Is this also true of decompression? I