Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:34:17PM +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: On 12/02/2011 07:44 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 10:45:42AM +1300, Mark wrote: On 3/12/2011 9:34 a.m., Per Sjoholm wrote: On 12/02/2011 07:44 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: [...] To begin, I'm using a single 1 TB SAS disk on the server, without log or cache devices.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Fwiw, iometer will test all manner of read/write throughput. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Actually, I meant iozone but if iometer is current then it might be worth looking at as well. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache devices? I'm using filebench with the fileserver personality. Is that my best choice? So far,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-02 Thread Geoff Flarity
I'm not sure who nobody is exactly? Given everyone's feedback it sounds like using filebench and paying close attention to synchronous write performance is a good way to begin. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-02 Thread Per Sjoholm
On 12/02/2011 07:44 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache devices? I'm using filebench with the fileserver

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-02 Thread Mark
On 3/12/2011 9:34 a.m., Per Sjoholm wrote: On 12/02/2011 07:44 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache devices? I'm

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread Gary Mills
I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a. How can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache devices? I'm using filebench with the fileserver personality. Is that my best choice? So far, I've tried filebench directly on the server and also on an NFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread Geoff Flarity
I've used filebench on solaris 10 for testing different disk combinations for a database servers a head of a major purchase. I had to write my own graphing scripts, but the information was very informative. My advice would be to max out your RAM (for ARC) before you bother with a ZIL, or L2ARC.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.comwrote: My advice would be to max out your RAM (for ARC) before you bother with a ZIL, or L2ARC. Where a fast SSD for a ZIL really shines is random synchronized writes. IE a database transaction. You'll notice this when you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread Doug Hughes
On 12/1/2011 3:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Geoff Flaritygeoff.flar...@gmail.comwrote: My advice would be to max out your RAM (for ARC) before you bother with a ZIL, or L2ARC. Where a fast SSD for a ZIL really shines is random synchronized writes. IE a database