Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:02:54 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > First surprise, with only 4GB I had set primarycache=metadata, > > you mean 4 GIGABYTES of memory is "ONLY"? At less than €30 - yes I think only is reasonable, I'd have bought more but 4GB is all the motherboard wou

RE: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If the rest of the world thought like you we would still be trying to invent the wheel. ??? what wheel. UFS is already invented. For LONG time. And UFS+softupdates works great. much better than new trash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
First surprise, with only 4GB I had set primarycache=metadata, you mean 4 GIGABYTES of memory is "ONLY"? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

RE: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
Discover it alone. I told already enough about it but it results in attacks from ZFS (and general "new technology") fanatics. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:29:51 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > are showing me. Read performance OTOH is strange, zpool and systat both > > reporting consistently an aggregated read speed of around 120MB/s during > > the block read tests (which seems a bit slow for the drives - and indeed > >

Re: ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are showing me. Read performance OTOH is strange, zpool and systat both reporting consistently an aggregated read speed of around 120MB/s during the block read tests (which seems a bit slow for the drives - and indeed systat reports the drives at less than 50% utilisation) but bonnie is only repor

ZFS bonnie puzzlement

2012-08-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, I've been looking at the performance of my new NAS box - built using a Jetway JNF99FL-525 with 4GB of 1066 DDR3 and a pair of 2TB Samsung F4 drives in a mirror. It all works but the performance reports are puzzling Running bonnie -s 8192 - reports character and block w