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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:12:32 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Phoronix comparision of HAMMER, UFS, ZFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs
Message-ID:  <igf0k0$hro$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110110130703.000047b7@unknown>
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On 10/01/2011 14:07, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:49:08 +0100
> Ivan Voras<ivoras@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>
>> It depends - since ZFS is logging all the time it doesn't have to
>> seek as much; if all transactions are WRITE and given sequentially,
>> they will be written to the drive sequentially, even with full fsync
>> semantics. But 75k IOPS is a bit too much :)
>
> I've been doing some benchmarking using sysutils/fio recently. It seems
> that for my desktop SATA disk (a Samsung F3) around 28-30k iops is about
> the maximum, seen both on Windows 7 (NTFS) and FreeBSD (ZFS).
> FreeBSD is much more bursty compared to Windows, getting 80k iops and
> 210MB/s for a few seconds followed by several of 0.

I've also noticed it is bursty - this can be moderated by tuning 
vfs.zfs.txg.timeout and vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending. But I think you must 
agree that 210 MB/s on a single drive looks impossible :) I get that 
much in a SAS RAID-10 configuration.




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