Rick McNeal wrote:
> I've not had a chance recently to run performance numbers using real
> disks as the backing store.
>
> Recently some hardware was made available to me, but I've not had a
> chance to run any performance testing because of other tasks. I'll see
> if I can make some time available tonight.
>
> Could you answer a couple of questions for me.
>
>     (1) What size I/O are you doing to the target?

8k up to 1MB.

>     (2) Are the builds from OpenSolaris? If so, I need to
>         determine if these are debug builds or not. I've
>         seen similar results when I run a machine with the
>         debug bits.

SX:CR.  49 on the target, 43 on the initiator.

>
>     (3) Before your run did you happen to boot the machine
>         using the -r option to boot. e.g. 'reboot -- -r'
>         This too will kill performance.

Nope.  I'm curious why this would be though.

>     (4) What benchmark are you using for iSCSI and NFS?

dd and iozone.  Although I'm open to suggestions on a better benchmark.
I used bonnie++ from time to time.

benr.
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