[zfs-discuss] Throttling application I/O

2009-04-14 Thread Matty
Howdy, We are running one write intensive and one read intensive Java process on a server, and would like to give preferential I/O treatment to the read intensive process. There was a discussion a while back about adding throttling measures to ZFS, and I was curious if this feature allows you to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Throttling application I/O

2009-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Matty wrote: We are running one write intensive and one read intensive Java process on a server, and would like to give preferential I/O treatment to the read intensive process. There was a discussion a while back about adding throttling measures to ZFS, and I was curious

Re: [zfs-discuss] Throttling application I/O

2009-04-14 Thread Richard Elling
Matty wrote: Howdy, We are running one write intensive and one read intensive Java process on a server, and would like to give preferential I/O treatment to the read intensive process. There was a discussion a while back about adding throttling measures to ZFS, and I was curious if this feature

[zfs-discuss] StorageTek 2540 performance radically changed

2009-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Today I updated the firmware on my StorageTek 2540 to the latest recommended version and am seeing radically difference performance when testing with iozone than I did in February of 2008. I am using Solaris 10 U5 with all the latest patches. This is the performance achieved (on a 32GB file)

Re: [zfs-discuss] StorageTek 2540 performance radically changed

2009-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I should have allowed the iozone run to go futher. What is really interesting is that performance is very much tied to file size: KB reclen write rewritereadreread 33554432 64 76688 27870 552106 555438 33554432 128 103120 369527