[zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
I'm trying to set up an OpenSolaris 2009.6 server as a Fibre Channel storage device, and I'm seeing painfully slow performance while copying large (6-50GB) files -- like 3-5 MB/second over 4Gb FC. However, if instead of creating a volume and exporting it via FC I create a standard filesystem and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Nigel Smith
Hi Dave So which hard drives are connected to which controllers? And what device drivers are those controllers using? The output from 'format', 'cfgadm' and 'prtconf -D' may help us to understand. Strange that you say that there are two hard drives per controllers, but three drives are showing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
So which hard drives are connected to which controllers? And what device drivers are those controllers using? 0. c7t0d0 DEFAULT cyl 7764 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63 /p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@3/pci1000,3...@0/s...@0,0 1. c7t1d0 ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A20N-1.82TB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dave Pooser wrote: c7, c8 and c9 are LSI controllers using the MPT driver. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports which are presented as two controllers (presumably c10 and c11) one for ports 0-3 and one for ports 4 and 5; both currently use the PCI-IDE drivers. One should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
c7, c8 and c9 are LSI controllers using the MPT driver. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports which are presented as two controllers (presumably c10 and c11) one for ports 0-3 and one for ports 4 and 5; both currently use the PCI-IDE drivers. on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote: c7, c8 and c9 are LSI controllers using the MPT driver. The motherboard has 6 SATA ports which are presented as two controllers (presumably c10 and c11) one for ports 0-3 and one for ports 4 and 5; both currently use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports show up as IDE or SATA, you may look into that.  It would probably be something like AHCI mode. Yeah, I changed the motherboard setting from enhanced to AHCI and now those ports show up as SATA. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
oh, so i WAS right? awesome On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Dave Pooser dave@alfordmedia.comwrote: on my motherboard, i can make the onboard sata ports show up as IDE or SATA, you may look into that. It would probably be something like AHCI mode. Yeah, I changed the motherboard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Painfully slow RAIDZ2 as fibre channel COMSTAR export

2010-02-14 Thread Dave Pooser
I'm off to straighten out my controller distribution, check to see if I have write caching turned off on the motherboard ports, install the b132 build, and possibly grab some dinner while I'm about it. I'll report back to the list with any progress or lack thereof. OK, the issue seems to be