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2010-02-20 Thread dirk schelfhout
uname -a SunOS 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris scrub made my system unresponsive. could not login with ssh. had to do a hard reboot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance

2010-02-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Phil Harman wrote: > This discussion is very timely, but I don't think we're done yet. I've been > working on using NexentaStor with Sun's DVI stack. The demo I've been playing > with glues SunRays to VirtualBox instances using ZFS zvols over iSCSI for the > boot im

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-20 08:45:23, Charles Hedrick wrote: | | I hadn't considered stress testing the disks. Obviously that's a good idea. We'll look at doing something in May, when we have the next opportunity to take down th

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Charles Hedrick
I hadn't considered stress testing the disks. Obviously that's a good idea. We'll look at doing something in May, when we have the next opportunity to take down the database. I doubt that doing testing during production is a good idea... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Charles Hedrick
We had been using the same pool for a backup Mysql server for 6 months before using it for the primary server. Neither zpool status -v nor fmdump shows any signs of problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-20 08:12:53, Charles Hedrick wrote: | | We recently moved a Mysql database from NFS (Netapp) to a local disk array (J4200 with SAS disks). Shortly after moving production, the system effectively hung. CP

[zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Charles Hedrick
We recently moved a Mysql database from NFS (Netapp) to a local disk array (J4200 with SAS disks). Shortly after moving production, the system effectively hung. CPU was at 100%, and one disk drive was at 100%. I had tried to follow the tuning recommendations for Mysql mostly: * recordsize set to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Doesn't this mean that if you enable write back, and you have > a single, non-mirrored raid-controller, and your raid controller > dies on you so that you loose the contents of the nvram, you have > a potentially corrupt file system? It is understood, that any single point of failure could resul

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> ZFS has intelligent prefetching. AFAIK, Solaris disk drivers do not > prefetch. Can you point me to any reference? I didn't find anything stating yay or nay, for either of these. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-20 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks everyone who has tried to help. this has gotten a bit crazier, I removed the 'faulty' drive and let the pool run in degraded mode. It would appear that now another drive has decided to play up; de-bash-4.0# zpool status pool: data state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there something like "udev" in OpenSolaris

2010-02-20 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:14, Lutz Schumann wrote: > Hello list, > > beeing a Linux Guy I'm actually quite new to Opensolaris. One thing I miss is > udev. > I found that when using SATA disks with ZFS - it always required manual > intervention (cfgadm) to do SATA hot plug. > > I would like to au

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there something like "udev" in OpenSolaris

2010-02-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>Hello list, > >beeing a Linux Guy I'm actually quite new to Opensolaris. One thing I miss is >udev. I found that w hen using SATA disks with ZFS - it always required manual intervention (cfgadm) to do SATA hot plug . > >I would like to automate the disk replacement, so that it is a fully aut

[zfs-discuss] Is there something like "udev" in OpenSolaris

2010-02-20 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hello list, beeing a Linux Guy I'm actually quite new to Opensolaris. One thing I miss is udev. I found that when using SATA disks with ZFS - it always required manual intervention (cfgadm) to do SATA hot plug. I would like to automate the disk replacement, so that it is a fully automatic p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor ZIL SLC SSD performance

2010-02-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 20/02/2010 01:34, Rob Logan wrote: This would probably work given that your computer never crashes in an uncontrolled manner. If it does, some data may be lost (and possibly the entire pool lost, if you are unlucky). the pool would never be at risk, but when your server reboots, its c