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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:38:58 +0100
From:      Davide D'Amico <davide.damico@contactlab.com>
To:        Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreBSD 9.1 and ZFS v28 performances
Message-ID:  <6d4c0172b3aa157a4e80212be4083966@sys.tomatointeractive.it>
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Il 20.03.2013 02:34 Bob Friesenhahn ha scritto:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Davide D'Amico wrote:
>>> While running the tests what sort of thing are you
>>> seeing from gstat, any disks maxing? If so primarily
>>> read or write?
>> Here the r/w pattern using zpool iostat 2:
> 
> Using 'zpool iostat 2' is not likely to be very useful since zfs
> writes all of is data in bursts and may wait up to 5 seconds to do so.
> 
> If your benchmark uses synchronous writes and does continous updates,
> then you should see zfs writing continiously to your zil device (or
> the pool).

And so, considering I'm using an SSD as ZIL device, I don't understand 
why ZFS performances are so slow (0.5x UFS performances).

My benchmark is a set of 50k queries (select, insert, updates) that 
'stress' the FS more than the 'simple' oltp tests.

Thank,
d.



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