Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-12-01 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 15 nov. 08 à 08:49, Nicholas Lee a écrit : On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, separate logs with rotating rust may reduce sync write latency by perhaps 2-10x on an otherwise busy system. Using write optimized SSDs will reduce sync

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-12-01 Thread Richard Elling
Nicholas Lee wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, separate logs with rotating rust may reduce sync write latency by perhaps 2-10x on an otherwise busy system. Using write optimized SSDs will

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Elling
Neil Perrin wrote: I wouldn't expect any improvement using a separate disk slice for the Intent Log unless that disk was much faster and was otherwise largely idle. If it was heavily used then I'd expect quite the performance degradation as the disk head bounces around between slices.

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-11-14 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: In short, separate logs with rotating rust may reduce sync write latency by perhaps 2-10x on an otherwise busy system. Using write optimized SSDs will reduce sync write latency by perhaps 10x in all cases. This is one of

[zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-11-13 Thread Doug
I've got an X4500/thumper that is mainly used as an NFS server. It has been discussed in the past that NFS performance with ZFS can be slow (when running tar to expand an archive with lots of files, for example.) My understanding is the reason that zfs/nfs is slow in this case is because it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] s10u6--will using disk slices for zfs logs improve nfs performance?

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Perrin
I wouldn't expect any improvement using a separate disk slice for the Intent Log unless that disk was much faster and was otherwise largely idle. If it was heavily used then I'd expect quite the performance degradation as the disk head bounces around between slices. Separate intent logs are