Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 21 August 2010 19:48:32 Steffen Neubauer wrote: I think I can exclude the ZFS implementation too, because I tried dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null and executed killall -SIGINFO dd while it was copying and it looked like it stalled randomly too. Not related your problem, but you can

IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread Steffen Neubauer
Hello, in the last few days I set up a freebsd box with 3 Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drives (WD EARS series, but that shouldn't be the problem...) with ZFS on the drives. I'm experiencing really annoying fluctuations with the performance of the drives. Here is an example:

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello Steffen, How did you setup your drives in ZFS ? stripe ? what bsd version do you have and what platform ? Do you see this big fluctuation when copying some big file like say and iso or movie ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread Steffen Neubauer
Hello Claudiu :) Sorry that I didn't answer these obvious questions in my first post. Am 21.08.2010 20:16, schrieb claudiu vasadi: How did you setup your drives in ZFS ? stripe ? raidz1 Here is my zpool status output: # zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:29:05 +0200 Steffen Neubauer stefr...@stefreak.de wrote: So this is not a zfs problem. But I don't think it's the hardware, too - I used that mainboard before FreeBSD with no problems. And the WD EARS drives can't be the problem on raw device access, too, because I used

Re: IO fluctuation

2010-08-21 Thread Jason Leschnik
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17036; This is a good starting point, there is also some good info using certain tools to force the drives to not goto spindown sleep. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Steffen Neubauer stefr...@stefreak.dewrote: Hello Claudiu :) Sorry that I didn't