Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #4 r240560: Sun Sep 16 18:40:56 BST 2012 r...@kontrol.kode5.net:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/KONTROL amd64 I've been wondering about ZFS tuning and have read some articles, including the FreeBSD handbook and wiki articles and also some posts in the FreeBSD forum

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
-a FreeBSD kontrol.kode5.net 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #4 r240560: Sun Sep 16 18:40:56 BST 2012 r...@kontrol.kode5.net:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/KONTROL amd64 I've been wondering about ZFS tuning and have read some articles, including the FreeBSD handbook and wiki articles and also

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 14:25:09 +0300 ] Handbook is old and cripsy about that all thing yet provides a useful link to http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide - you don't need kmem_size/arc tuning on amd64 generally; - zfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 will cause

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 17 September 2012 13:20:14 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I set zfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 because some dmesg line suggested/implied it would benefit. I don't recall the exact output now. If you look in /var/run/dmesg.boot you should find the message saying ZFS NOTICE: Prefetch is

Re: Questions about ZFS Tuning

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mike Clarke wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 18:19:18 +0100 ] On Monday 17 September 2012 13:20:14 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I set zfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 because some dmesg line suggested/implied it would benefit. I don't recall the exact output now. If you look in /var/run/dmesg.boot

zfs tuning on ia64

2012-07-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Most of http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide is for i386 and amd64. I'm using zfs on ia64 r238540. Not sure how much of the advice given apply in my case. I have: # grep ZFS /var/run/dmesg.boot ZFS filesystem version: 5 ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000) # zpool upgrade -v |tail

Re: zfs tuning

2011-06-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 23:45, Gary Gatten schreef: 2 Mega Bytes? Surely that's a typo, but is it 200MB? 2GB? Those that know ZFS will want to know the primary use / load of this system. It was a typo for sure. Should be 2GB It will be a server, so no X FAMP Mailserver for 10 users (imap) Nameserver

zfs tuning

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need this info. The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest some settings for: vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vfs.zfs.arc_max

RE: zfs tuning

2011-06-29 Thread Gary Gatten
: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: zfs tuning I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need this info. The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest