From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 18:20:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBFBDD1 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:20:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from break19@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD958FC0C for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so12286006iea.13 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:20:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FEmEuMdxqZ6/NSPWgIgmn7ziubX/IeYCliYb6pnA3tM=; b=fGp4AZnoQt2bV9Rp6Qz7T8Fvrb0hvLnqyPwtC0/9j+YV18LrD8VRd192ukPSodr3aw BOOhiHcGvvgzUxHPfeX+kg6iUMr3TnWYc9PbZIDOYZTIMZnkVSDH95+SXt4h9m2/p0GC nAiMV45pXlSd5DBG0b1JWw9qo6upCWX7bGiK/KpWtpprNnIx9htS34ui/XSFEwPVpJ4b 7KheYsdr66dN7wHEb4UUGYvQplMTOD0SlMUm5jsAVk33Kgz+rR4EDci/ug/N6u9kaKoi SQCXk9GYss0KbcQGdDOTYr3E2Xm0GfW9M0czB3R5dzLwluMBYeVEPg0E/qaGqnkq7y24 ZEvQ== Received: by 10.50.40.229 with SMTP id a5mr8840269igl.59.1352744441801; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (173-119-70-193.pools.spcsdns.net. [173.119.70.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dq9sm6823088igc.5.2012.11.12.10.20.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:20:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50A13DC1.2040301@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:19:45 -0600 From: Chuck Burns User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RHEL to FreeBSD file server References: <50A130B7.4080604@cse.yorku.ca> In-Reply-To: <50A130B7.4080604@cse.yorku.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:20:42 -0000 TBH, I've never gotten my hands on anything close to that much power, but I can tell you, from my experience with FreeBSD's NFS implementation on much lower-powered hardware, it uses less CPU on a system that ran debian stable for a bit. Said system is not powerful enough for ZFS, mind you.. However, I do have another FreeBSD system that is more of a desktop system. I have only 3x750G wd blue sata drives in it, in a raidz, and I've not had any io-related issues on it. Admittedly, my experiences are more "hobbyist" than enterprise, and although I do try to keep abreast of all this info, I'm so not sure how much that info helps.. I do, however, have the understanding that most of the performance issues have had to do with certain controllers simply not being configured correctly, or have the "right" firmware On a slightly unrelated note, "pics?" I would love to drool over this setup. :) -- Chuck Burns