Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Roch
Gary Mills writes: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:56:57PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: Is moving the databases (IMAP

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:21:13AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: Yes, I understand that, but do filesystems have separate queues of any sort within the ZIL? I'm not sure. If you can experiment and measure a benefit, understanding

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 14, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:47:46AM -0800, Roch wrote: Gary Mills writes: Yes, I understand that, but do filesystems have separate queues of any sort within the ZIL? If not, would it help to put the database filesystems into a separate

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Elling
additional clarification ... On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:47:46AM -0800, Roch wrote: Gary Mills writes: Yes, I understand that, but do filesystems have separate queues of any sort within

[zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
I'm working with a Cyrus IMAP server running on a T2000 box under Solaris 10 10/09 with current patches. Mailboxes reside on six ZFS filesystems, each containing about 200 gigabytes of data. These are part of a single zpool built on four Iscsi devices from our Netapp filer. One of these ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: Is moving the databases (IMAP metadata) to a separate ZFS filesystem likely to improve performance? I've heard that this is important, but I'm not clear why this is. There is an obvious potential benefit in that you are then able to tune filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: Is moving the databases (IMAP metadata) to a separate ZFS filesystem likely to improve performance? I've heard that this is important, but I'm not clear why this is. There is an

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:37:30PM -0800, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: Is moving the databases (IMAP metadata) to a separate ZFS filesystem likely to improve performance? I've heard that this is

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do separate ZFS filesystems affect performance?

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Gary Mills wrote: Is moving the databases (IMAP metadata) to a separate ZFS filesystem likely to improve performance? I've heard that this is important, but