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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:34:16 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        "Davide D'Amico" <davide.damico@contactlab.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreBSD 9.1 and ZFS v28 performances
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1303192031480.11141@freddy.simplesystems.org>
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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).

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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