Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-18 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
after some fruitful discussions with Jörg, it turned out that my mtwrite patch prevents tar, star, gtar, and unzip from setting the file times correctly. I've investigated this issue and updated the patch accordingly. Unfortunately, I encountered an issue concerning semaphores, which seem to ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > disks=`format http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff Bonwick
No, that is definitely not expected. One thing that can hose you is having a single disk that performs really badly. I've seen disks as slow as 5 MB/sec due to vibration, bad sectors, etc. To see if you have such a disk, try my diskqual.sh script (below). On my desktop system, which has 8 drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Bob Friesenhahn schrieb: > On my drive array (capable of 260MB/second single-process writes and > 450MB/second single-process reads) 'zfs iostat' reports a read rate of > about 59MB/second and a write rate of about 59MB/second when executing > 'cp -r' on a directory containing thousands of 8MB f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On my drive array (capable of 260MB/second single-process writes and 450MB/second single-process reads) 'zfs iostat' reports a read rate of about 59MB/second and a write rate of about 59MB/second when executing 'cp -r' on a directory containing thousands of 8MB files. This seems very similar t

[zfs-discuss] Performance of one single 'cp'

2008-04-08 Thread Henrik Hjort
Hi! I just want to check with the community to see if this is normal. I have used a X4500 with 500Gb disks and I'm not impressed by the copy performance. I can run several jobs in parallel and get close to 400mb/s but I need better performance from a single copy. I have tried to be "EVIL" as w