Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-12-22 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm seeing exactly the same issues on my 5 disk raidz pool again. In brief: I can only write to the filesystem at ~20MB/s, and read from it at ~25MB/s. Normally, I'd expect to be able to write at nearer 50-100 MB/s, and read at ~200MB/s. The values from zpool iostat -v are also strange.

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-22 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on a system with 2GB RAM. I've a zfs pool using raidz1 over five 2Tb SATA drives connected via a port multiplier and a RR2314 card. I can write to a filesystem on this pool at approx 20MB/s: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=$FS/testdump bs=1m

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Key
Carl Chave wrote: relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current bandwidth usage by specifying an interval. Thanks Carl, I was aware of the option, the posted stats were from: # zpool iostat -v 10 with the 10s period wholly within the ~40s transfer time. King regards,

ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on a system with 2GB RAM. I've a zfs pool using raidz1 over five 2Tb SATA drives connected via a port multiplier and a RR2314 card. I can write to a filesystem on this pool at approx 20MB/s: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=$FS/testdump bs=1m count=1k 1024+0 records

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Carl Chave
Chris, Don't know, but, I will paste in a portion of the ZFS admin guide from SUN: Because these statistics are cumulative since boot, bandwidth might appear low if the pool is relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current bandwidth usage by specifying an interval. For