Gino,
  I have always found /dev/zero (on solaris) much slower than reading a file 
from another diskarray on the same system (Never bothered to find out why). 
Therefore you may not be comparing apples with apples. It may have changed 
since I last used it though. I used to have a little C program I used to thrash 
disks. Now days I just use filebench. ( It is supposed to have some linux 
support )

Doug
 
> Hello,
> 
> Server DL585, S10u2
> local storage:  SmartArray 5+,64MB cache
> 50%read/50%write, mirror 2x72GB 15k rpm.
> SAN:  StorageWorks EVA5000, 4x146GB, 10k rpm disks
> exported as single luns
> 
> TEST:  dd if=/dev/zero of=TESTFILE bs=<various>
> count=10000000
> 
> RESULTS:
> local storage, ufs:  24MB/s
> SAN single lun, zfs: 18MB/s
> SAN 2 luns, zfs mirros, 30MB/s
> SAN 4 luns, zfs 2 mirrors, 37MB/s 
> 
> COMPARISON:
> DL385, Freebsd5.4, SAN RAID5 over 4 disks,  64MB/s
> 
> Why so low performances? Any tunings?
 
 
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