Is there a mixed message from the SmartOS team. On one hand SmartOS is
pushed as a stateless platform thus the exclusion of UPS monitoring.
Reading this thread it seems like the answer hey if you want performance
you need to spend big bucks on a battery backup log device.I don't get it.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:31 AM, Peter Toth via smartos-discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Yes, and writing out of KVM machines is always synchronous anyway as
> Robert mentioned before - all data goes to disks.
> 2. 5x mirrored vdevs (pair of 10K SAS drives) 10 drives in total
>
> If I trhow async I/O at the same box I get around 700MB/s sustained I/O.
>
> It is a dual controller LSI2308, latest Haswell chipset server (we've
> received it today, haven't had much time to test yet)
>
> Cheers
> Peter
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Greg Zartman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Peter Toth <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just for reference:
>>>
>>> I have tested an Intel DC 3500 SSD as an slog device today - from a
>>> CentOS KVM guest doing dd with 64k block size.
>>>
>>> Average write speed 270MB/s - I think that speaks for itself.
>>>
>>> Wow, yea that sounds more like it.   Couple questions:
>>
>> 1. Did you do a write big enough to make sure you weren't just writing
>> RAM?
>>
>> 2.  What's you zpool config and what kind of hardware you running?  That
>> is, what kind of vdevs do you have?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg
>>
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