Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:38:03PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote: > Matthew, > > On 8/20/06 6:20 PM, "Matthew Ahrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This was not the design, we're working on fixing this bug so that many > > threads will be used to do the compression. > > Is this also true of deco

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Sean Meighan wrote: > On our Niagara T2000 32x1000mhz box, 8 gigs ram, 4x68gig disk drives . we > setup three drives as raidz with compression. all of our performance issues > are gone. remember we receive ~150 million lines of ASCII and 2 million files > per day . we have ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Sean Meighan
On our Niagara T2000 32x1000mhz box, 8 gigs ram, 4x68gig disk drives . we setup three drives as raidz with compression. all of our performance issues are gone. remember we receive ~150 million lines of ASCII and 2 million files per day .  we have had zero performance issues since we 1) upgrade

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
Matthew, On 8/20/06 6:20 PM, "Matthew Ahrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was not the design, we're working on fixing this bug so that many > threads will be used to do the compression. Is this also true of decompression? - Luke ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-20 Thread Manoj Joseph
Alan Romeril wrote: PxFS performance improvements of the order of 5-6 times are possible depending on the workload using Fastwrite option. Fantastic! Has this been targetted at directory operations? We've had issues with large directorys full of small files being very slow to handle over PxFS.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:16:23PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 8/20/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 8/20/06, trevor pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Team > >> > >> During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not > >> answer and did not find with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
On 8/20/06, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/20/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/06, trevor pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Team > > > > During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not > > answer and did not find with a quick look th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 8/20/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/20/06, trevor pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Team > > During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not > answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. > > Q: What's the effect (if any) of only

Re: [zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread James Dickens
On 8/20/06, trevor pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. Q: What's the effect (if any) of only having on Floating Point Processor on Niagara when you turn on

[zfs-discuss] Niagara and ZFS compression?

2006-08-20 Thread trevor pretty
Team During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. Q: What's the effect (if any) of only having on Floating Point Processor on Niagara when you turn on ZFS compression? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat, scrubbing increases used disk space

2006-08-20 Thread Noel Dellofano
thanks for the heads up.  I've fixed them to point to the right documents. NoelOn Aug 20, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Ricardo Correia wrote:By the way, the manpage links in  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ are not correct, they are  linked to wrong documents.

[zfs-discuss] zpool iostat, scrubbing increases used disk space

2006-08-20 Thread Ricardo Correia
Hi, How are the statistics in 'zpool iostat -v' computed? Is this an x-minute-average? I noticed that if there's no I/O for a while, the numbers keep decreasing and the zpool manpage doesn't say anything about this. By the way, the manpage links in http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/d

[zfs-discuss] Re: SPEC SFS97 benchmark of ZFS,UFS,VxFS

2006-08-20 Thread Alan Romeril
PxFS performance improvements of the order of 5-6 times are possible depending on the workload using Fastwrite option. Fantastic! Has this been targetted at directory operations? We've had issues with large directorys full of small files being very slow to handle over PxFS. Are there plans fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] in-kernel gzip compression

2006-08-20 Thread michael schuster
Bill Moore wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:25:21PM +0200, michael schuster wrote: maybe a stupid question: what do we use for compressing dump data on the dump device? We use a variant of Lempel-Ziv called lzjb (the jb is for Jeff Bonwick). The algorithm was designed for very small code/memo