On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Mario Goebbels wrote:
>
>>> Similarly, read block size does not make a
>>> significant difference to the sequential read speed.
>>
>> Last time I did a simple bench using dd, supplying the record size as
>> blocksize to it instead of no blocksize parameter bumped the mirror  
>> pool
>> speed from 90MB/s to 130MB/s.
>
> Indeed.  However, as an interesting twist to things, in my own
> benchmark runs I see two behaviors.  When the file size is smaller
> than the amount of RAM the ARC can reasonably grow to, the write block
> size does make a clear difference.  When the file size is larger than
> RAM, the write block size no longer makes much difference and
> sometimes larger block sizes actually go slower.

in that case .. try fixing the ARC size .. the dynamic resizing on the  
ARC can be less than optimal IMHO

---
.je
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to