[zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-07 Thread Felix Buenemann
on the storage controller or would I get better performance out of JBOD + ZFS RAIDZ2? Best Regards, Felix Buenemann ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-08 Thread Felix Buenemann
Hi Daniel, Am 08.02.10 05:45, schrieb Daniel Carosone: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:58:38AM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote: I have some questions about the choice of SSDs to use for ZIL and L2ARC. I have one answer. The other questions are mostly related to your raid controller, which I can't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-08 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 08.02.10 22:23, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Richard Elling wrote: If there is insufficient controller bandwidth capacity, then the controller becomes the bottleneck. We don't tend to see this for HDDs, but SSDs can crush a controller and channel. It is definitely seen

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-09 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 09.02.10 02:30, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Felix Buenemann wrote: Well to make things short: Using JBOD + ZFS Striped Mirrors vs. controller's RAID10, dropped the max. sequential read I/O from over 400 MByte/s to below 300 MByte/s. However random I/O and sequential writes

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-12 Thread Felix Buenemann
with only 4Gb of RAM because ZFS use memory to allocate and manage L2ARC. Is there a guideline in which relation L2ARC size should be to RAM? I could upgrade the server to 8GB, but that's the maximum the i975X chipset can handle. Best Regards, Felix Buenemann

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ZIL + L2ARC SSD Setup

2010-02-12 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 12.02.10 18:17, schrieb Richard Elling: On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Felix Buenemann wrote: Hi Mickaël, Am 12.02.10 13:49, schrieb Mickaël Maillot: Intel X-25 M are MLC not SLC, there are very good for L2ARC. Yes, I'm only using those for L2ARC, I'm planing on getting to Mtron Pro 7500

[zfs-discuss] Poor ZIL SLC SSD performance

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Buenemann
the cache syncs bring the device to it's knees? Best Regards, Felix Buenemann ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 19.02.10 19:30, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Felix Buenemann wrote: So it is apparent, that the SSD has really poor random writes. But I was under the impression, that the ZIL is mostly sequential writes or was I misinformed here? Maybe the cache syncs bring the device

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

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 19.02.10 20:50, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Too bad, I'm getting ~1000 IOPS with an Intel X25-M G2 MLC and around 300 with a regular USB stick, so 50 IOPS is really poor for an SLC SSD. Well, but the Intel X25-M is the drive that really first

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

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 19.02.10 21:29, schrieb Marion Hakanson: felix.buenem...@googlemail.com said: I think I'll try one of thise inexpensive battery-backed PCI RAM drives from Gigabyte and see how much IOPS they can pull. Another poster, Tracy Bernath, got decent ZIL IOPS from an OCZ Vertex unit. Dunno if

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

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 20.02.10 01:33, schrieb Toby Thain: On 19-Feb-10, at 5:40 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:17:29PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote: I found the Hyperdrive 5/5M, which is a half-height drive bay sata ramdisk with battery backup and auto-backup to compact flash at power

Re: [zfs-discuss] l2arc current usage (population size)

2010-02-21 Thread Felix Buenemann
Am 20.02.10 03:22, schrieb Tomas Ögren: On 19 February, 2010 - Christo Kutrovsky sent me these 0,5K bytes: How do you tell how much of your l2arc is populated? I've been looking for a while now, can't seem to find it. Must be easy, as this blog entry shows it over time:

[zfs-discuss] controller cache instead of dedicated ZIL device

2010-02-23 Thread Felix Buenemann
accelerator, requiring no dedicated ZIL? If my understanding is correct, a battery backed RAID controller will ignore cache flush commands and thus the controller cache would be a very low latency intermediate cache wich is preserved over power failure. Best Regards, Felix Buenemann