Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:09:56 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kvs@pil.dk> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X4500, FreeBSD and ZFS Message-ID: <20070503190956.GC7177@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <m1k5vtgczd.fsf@binarysolutions.dk> References: <m1k5vtgczd.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>
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--rQ2U398070+RC21q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote: > Mjello. >=20 > Just thought I'd say that we've got a Sun Fire X4500 running with > -CURRENT as of yesterday and ZFS. Works beautifully, after we disabled > MSI and increased VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX. >=20 > Without the increased VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX, we got the usual panic (kmem_map > too small). I haven't tried adjusting maxvnodes - that might also have > helped. However, the machine has 16 GB RAM, so it might as well be used > for something. I'm not quite sure how to tweak the box efficiently, but > for now the bottleneck is our network, so we're going to upgrade some > pieces and try again. >=20 > We configured the 48 drives as follows: >=20 > - ad52 and ad60 are magic - the BIOS is hardcoded to boot from them, so > we put them in a gmirror > - 5 RAIDZ2's, each with 9 disks, for a usable total of 7 per array > - one global hotspare >=20 > # zpool list > NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT > void 20.3T 62.1G 20.3T 0% ONLINE - >=20 > # zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > void 48.2G 15.5T 41.9K /void >=20 > All in all, a fun little toy :) If it's just a little toy for your, maybe you want to replace it with my teddy bear?:) Great to hear that this beast works with FreeBSD!! Any chance we can trick you into performance comparsion between Solaris/ZFS and FreeBSD/ZFS?:) --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --rQ2U398070+RC21q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGOjOEForvXbEpPzQRAuaRAJ9ltDAeW/DIFLaK1j+JBov820ArawCgrvx/ lpeOBRYJdErnr8Fp0qOXD3Q= =yviu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rQ2U398070+RC21q--
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