Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:51:14 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Dan Naumov" <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS performance on 7.2-release/amd64 low compared to UFS2 + SoftUpdates
Message-ID:  <op.uvo0joki8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl>
In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee00906170034q1cee4581hb518f53e9f368368@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <cf9b1ee00906170034q1cee4581hb518f53e9f368368@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:34:02 +0200, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I am wondering if the numbers I am seeing is something expected or is
> something broken somewhere. Output of bonnie -s 1024:
>
> on UFS2 + SoftUpdates:
>
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--  
> --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---  
> --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU   
> /sec %CPU
>          1024 56431 94.5 88407 38.9 77357 53.3 64042 98.6 644511 98.6
> 23603.8 243.3
>
> on ZFS:
>
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--  
> --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---  
> --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU   
> /sec %CPU
>          1024 22591 53.7 45602 35.1 14770 13.2 45007 83.8 94595 28.0  
> 102.2  1.2
>
>
> atom# cat /boot/loader.conf
> vm.kmem_size="1024M"
> vm.kmem_size_max="1024M"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="96M"

Isn't 96M for ARC really small?
Mine is 860M.
vfs.zfs.arc_max: 860072960
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size: 657383376

I think the UFS2 cache is much bigger which makes a difference in your  
test.

Ronald.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?op.uvo0joki8527sy>