Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Linux client slow reads

2011-05-28 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
what are the NFS mount options? what are the tcp window size is jumbo frame on or off bs=1024 is very small, did you test various different bs size? ZFS what is the block size? stripwidth? On 5/28/2011 8:52 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: This is kind of a mystery. Is it the same linux client in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Linux client slow reads

2011-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
This is kind of a mystery. Is it the same linux client in both cases? -Original Message- From: Pete Ashdown [mailto:pashd...@xmission.com] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:06 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Linux client slow reads Both NFS tests wer

[OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting zpools toward switching machines

2011-05-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: b 133 (opensolaris) on older athlon +3400 as home lan zfs server No commercial operations, home use only. Current hardware is dying and partially dead now. I've laid zfs down for a good number of months. Not on purpose so much as just too busy with life. Conseque

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
On 5/28/2011 1:53 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: The rationale included the words "SPARC V9 ABI", if I recall correctly. It's not changing. Yes: 4097659 64-bit FD_SETSIZE isn't V9 ABI compliant IMHO, this means that this does not apply to x86_64 and so the value should be adjusted

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-28 Thread LaoTsao
IMHO, exadata cell in oracle rac is very different beast, not sure your iozone test make any sense Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On May 28, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Gary wrote: > On 5/27/11, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> It all depends, I guess. Some people get better performance

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-28 Thread Gary
On 5/27/11, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > It all depends, I guess. Some people get better performance with iSCSI, > others with NFS. The big advantage of going NFS is that the OI server > can back up user data by snapshotting the zfs filesystem on the OI > server (this is not the only kind of backu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>> The rationale included the words "SPARC V9 ABI", if I recall >> correctly.  It's not changing. > > Yes:  4097659 64-bit FD_SETSIZE isn't V9 ABI compliant >   IMHO, this means that this does not apply to x86_64 and so the value should be adjusted in the upcoming release of Illumos. A.S. ---

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

2011-05-28 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 28, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: > I'd consider not using dedup given the cheap price of storage these days > combined with limited ram in on that mobo. As in, the performance hit for the > saved disk space wouldnt be worth it for my needs. >> IMHO, the RAM utilization expense

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/28/11 09:54 AM, Richard Lowe wrote: > The rationale included the words "SPARC V9 ABI", if I recall > correctly. It's not changing. Yes: 4097659 64-bit FD_SETSIZE isn't V9 ABI compliant -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Richard Lowe
The rationale included the words "SPARC V9 ABI", if I recall correctly. It's not changing. -- Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/28/11 07:48 AM, Ben Taylor wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos > wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith has posted the following in his blog: >> >> http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/there_i_fixed_it >> >> >> The question is why FD_SETSIZE takes the value 65536 in the 64bit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Ben Taylor
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > Alan Coopersmith has posted the following in his blog: > > > > http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/there_i_fixed_it > > > The question is why FD_SETSIZE takes the value 65536 in the 64bit model? I would assume that whoever changed di

[OpenIndiana-discuss] FD_SETSIZE

2011-05-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Alan Coopersmith has posted the following in his blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/there_i_fixed_it   The question is why FD_SETSIZE takes the value 65536 in the 64bit model? What would happen if the default value would be, say, 2048? Regards, Apostolos -- Apostol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
No, just a sparse file. -Original Message- From: Gabriele Bulfon [mailto:gbul...@sonicle.com] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 4:16 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices Hi, about the "thin-provisione file", do you mean a thin-p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-28 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> but you won't see deb distro guys going out of their way to make >>> things familiar for rpm distro users and vice versa. >> >> You need to support both if you build Linux systems to customers. >> > > But that is not the problem of t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

2011-05-28 Thread Matt Connolly
On 28/05/2011, at 7:08 AM, Ray Arachelian wrote: > On 05/25/2011 05:21 PM, Matt Connolly wrote: >> >> Sounds like an almost identical setup to what I have. Although I'm using a >> Si3114 card. I have AHCI enabled in the bios, so my drivers are: >> >> Silicon Image si3114 = pci-ide >> Intel SATA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-28 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, about the "thin-provisione file", do you mean a thin-provisioned volume (a zvol swith -s) or something different? -- Da: Dan Swartzendruber A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Data: 27 maggio 2011 23.06.49 CEST Ogge