Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL

2012-10-01 Thread Tim Swast
On 10/01/2012 09:09 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Just perform a bunch of writes, time it. Then set sync=disabled, perform the same set of writes, time it. Then enable sync, add a ZIL device, time it. The third option will be somewhere in between the first

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL

2012-10-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > --- How how will improving ZIL latency improve performance of my pool that > is used as a NFS share to ESXi hosts which forces sync writes only (i.e will > it be > noticeable in an end-to-end context)? Just perform a bunch of w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL

2012-10-01 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL Hi all, I currently have a OCZ Vertex 4 SSD as a ZIL device and am well aware of their exaggerated claims of sustained performance. I was thinking about getting a DRAM based ZIL accelerator such as Christopher