Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
I am using 4 SATA II drives, with this card (see the comments) which got detected by Solaris automatically: http://napobo3.blogspot.com/2006/04/sata2-under-b36.html I understand that my 32bit CPU is the limiting factor? But that seems a bit strange I think. A [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be able to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-19 Thread Joel Buckley
Orvar Korvar wrote: I am using 4 SATA II drives, with this card (see the comments) which got detected by Solaris automatically: http://napobo3.blogspot.com/2006/04/sata2-under-b36.html On there you posted: However, I get very slow read/write perfomance. I have 4 samsung 500GB each should

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Haycraft
How are the drives connected? USB or SATA? Also, is this hardware raid or are you using raidz? If sata, what controller is being used? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-17 Thread Thomas Wagner
Orvar, around 50 to 60 MB/sec I've seen when zwo disks are writing and around 100MB/s when reading round-robin. The limiting faktor has been the old PCI-Bus (*not* 32-Bit slot length) and in another test the 1-lane PCI-X bus. (Sil680/SIL3124-2 and SIL3132 Chip) So if you can see the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-15 Thread Orvar Korvar
I did that, and here are the results from the ZFS jury: bash-3.00$ timex dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=128k count=8192 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out real 19.40 user 0.01 sys1.54 That is, 1GB created on 20sec = 50MB/sec. That is better, but still not good,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
Orvar Korvar wrote: When I copy that file from ZFS to /dev/null I get this output: real0m0.025s user0m0.002s sys 0m0.007s which can't be correct. Is it wrong of me to use time cp fil fil2 when measuring disk performance? replying to just this part of your message for now cp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Orvar Korvar
I am using Solaris Express Community build 67 installed on a 40GB harddrive (UFS filesystem on Solaris), dual boot with Windows XP. I have a zfsraid with 4 samsung drives. It is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 1GB RAM. When I copy a 1.3G file from ZFSpool to ZFSpool the command time cp file file2

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Sean Hafeez
ZFS is a 128 bit file system. The performance on your 32-bit CPU will not be that good. ZFS was designed for a 64-bit CPU. Another GB of RAM might help. There are a bunch of post in the archive about 32-bit CPUs and performance. -Sean Orvar Korvar wrote: I am using Solaris Express

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-07 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Jul 7, 2007, at 06:14, Orvar Korvar wrote: When I copy that file from ZFS to /dev/null I get this output: real0m0.025s user0m0.002s sys 0m0.007s which can't be correct. Is it wrong of me to use time cp fil fil2 when measuring disk performance? well you're reading and writing

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
have set up a ZFS raidz with 4 samsung 500GB hard drives. It is extremely slow when I mount a ntfs partition and copy everything to zfs. Its like 100kb/sec or less. Why is that? When I copy from ZFSpool to UFS, I get like 40MB/sec - isnt it very low considering I have 4 new 500GB discs in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-06 Thread Will Murnane
On 7/6/07, Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have set up a ZFS raidz with 4 samsung 500GB hard drives. It is extremely slow when I mount a ntfs partition and copy everything to zfs. Its like 100kb/sec or less. Why is that? How are you mounting said NTFS partition? When I copy from

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Bonwick
A couple of questions for you: (1) What OS are you running (Solaris, BSD, MacOS X, etc)? (2) What's your config? In particular, are any of the partitions on the same disk? (3) Are you copying a few big files or lots of small ones? (4) Have you measured UFS-to-UFS and ZFS-to-ZFS