Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-28 Thread Roch - PAE
Frank Hofmann writes: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jeff Davis wrote: Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? As a follow-up, I tested this on UFS and ZFS. UFS does very poorly: the I/O rate drops off quickly when you add

[zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-27 Thread Jeff Davis
Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? As a follow-up, I tested this on UFS and ZFS. UFS does very poorly: the I/O rate drops off quickly when you add processes while reading the same blocks from the same file at the same time. I don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-27 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jeff Davis wrote: Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? As a follow-up, I tested this on UFS and ZFS. UFS does very poorly: the I/O rate drops off quickly when you add processes while reading the same blocks from the

[zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-26 Thread Jeff Davis
Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? Actually, the case where I saw the bad behavior was in Linux using the CFQ I/O scheduler. When reading the same file sequentially, adding processes drastically reduced total disk throughput (single

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-26 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 26, 2007 9:05:21 AM -0800 Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That got me worried about the project I'm working on, and I wanted to understand ZFS's caching behavior better to prove to myself that the problem wouldn't happen under ZFS. Clearly the block will be in cache on the second

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-26 Thread Bart Smaalders
Jeff Davis wrote: Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? Actually, the case where I saw the bad behavior was in Linux using the CFQ I/O scheduler. When reading the same file sequentially, adding processes drastically reduced total disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-26 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 26 févr. 07 à 18:30, Frank Cusack a écrit : On February 26, 2007 9:05:21 AM -0800 Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That got me worried about the project I'm working on, and I wanted to understand ZFS's caching behavior better to prove to myself that the problem wouldn't happen under

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Efficiency when reading the same file blocks

2007-02-26 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/26/2007 11:36:18 AM: Jeff Davis wrote: Given your question are you about to come back with a case where you are not seeing this? Actually, the case where I saw the bad behavior was in Linux using the CFQ I/O scheduler. When reading the same file