Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:39:25PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mit, 2007-12-12 at 10:02 -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > [...] > > > People have proposed writing a daemon that just reads > > > /proc/net/rpc/nfsd periodically

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mit, 2007-12-12 at 10:02 -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: [...] > > People have proposed writing a daemon that just reads > > /proc/net/rpc/nfsd periodically and uses that to adjust the number of > > threads from userspace, probably

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:46:18AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Incidentally, we ran our tests with 128 knfsd threads. The default > > of 8 threads produces miserable performance on the SSD, which gave > > us a good scare on our

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:46:18AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Incidentally, we ran our tests with 128 knfsd threads. The default of 8 > threads produces miserable performance on the SSD, which gave us a good > scare on our initial test run. It would be very nice to implement an >

A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
The imminent demise of rotating media storage has been predicted for many years now, and here is a device that aims to help turn that fantasy into fact: http://www.violin-memory.com/products/violin1010.html Well. At least if you have the money, and are not bothered by the fact that that

A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
The imminent demise of rotating media storage has been predicted for many years now, and here is a device that aims to help turn that fantasy into fact: http://www.violin-memory.com/products/violin1010.html Well. At least if you have the money, and are not bothered by the fact that that

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:46:18AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: Incidentally, we ran our tests with 128 knfsd threads. The default of 8 threads produces miserable performance on the SSD, which gave us a good scare on our initial test run. It would be very nice to implement an algorithm

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:46:18AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: Incidentally, we ran our tests with 128 knfsd threads. The default of 8 threads produces miserable performance on the SSD, which gave us a good scare on our initial

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mit, 2007-12-12 at 10:02 -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: [...] People have proposed writing a daemon that just reads /proc/net/rpc/nfsd periodically and uses that to adjust the number of threads from userspace, probably subject to

Re: A peek at the future of storage

2007-12-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:39:25PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mit, 2007-12-12 at 10:02 -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:46, J. Bruce Fields wrote: [...] People have proposed writing a daemon that just reads /proc/net/rpc/nfsd periodically and uses