Hi Davies, Dick Davies wrote: > On 29/10/2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I created a ZFS file system like the following with /mypool/cache being >> the partition for the Squid cache: >> >> 18:51:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs list >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT >> mypool 478M 31.0G 10.0M /mypool >> mypool/cache 230M 9.78G 230M /mypool/cache >> mypool/home 226M 31.0G 226M /export/home >> >> Note: I only have a few days of experience on Solaris and I might have >> made some mistakes with the above ZFS partitions! > > No, that looks ok. You can just 'zfs set quota=<something else> mypool/cache' > to be bigger in the future if need be.
I will increase the quota as required in the future. > >> Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using a ZFS >> file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? Will it >> improve and degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is there any >> kind of benchmark tools for ZFS performance? > > filebench sounds like it'd be useful for you. It's coming in the next Nevada > release, but since it looks like you're on Solaris 10, take a look at: > > http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/filebench Thanks for the suggestion and the URL for the utility "filebench". I will study it and if possible apply it for benchmarking. However, I am having some problems installing filebench which I downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebench I unzipped the filebench-1.0.0.tar.bz2 package in the directory filebench which contains the following: -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 216 Jun 20 2005 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 0 Jun 20 2005 ChangeLog -rwxr-xr-x 1 76367 webservd 227 Oct 5 13:08 COPYING -rwxr-xr-x 1 76367 webservd 227 Oct 5 13:08 COPYRIGHT drwxr-xr-x 7 76367 webservd 512 Oct 5 12:59 filebench -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 314 Oct 5 13:18 INSTALL -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 18600 Jun 15 2005 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 0 Jun 20 2005 NEWS -rw-r--r-- 1 76367 webservd 288 Oct 5 13:23 README The INSTALL and README files both contain references to http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench But according to the installation manual, the following 2 commands does not seem to be working for my Solaris 10 (i386) box! # zcat (filebench name).tar.Z |tar xvf - # pkgadd -d . Please bear with me here because I am only 1 week old with Solaris! Also there does not seem to be any filebench packages in blastwave or sunfreeware. I think that I am missing a simple thing here. If possible, please guide me. I will really appreciate it. > > Remember to 'zfs set atime=off mypool/cache' - > there's no need for it for squid caches. I will do that. > Thanking you... -- With best regards and good wishes, Yours sincerely, Tek Bahadur Limbu System Administrator (TAG/TDG Group) Jwl Systems Department Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. Jawalakhel, Nepal http://www.wlink.com.np http://teklimbu.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
