From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 20:09:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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 8F38E16A403 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DE513C484 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 20:09:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 25D4348A32; Thu, 3 May 2007 21:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (154.81.datacomsa.pl [195.34.81.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF186487FB; Thu, 3 May 2007 21:10:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:09:56 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt Message-ID: <20070503190956.GC7177@garage.freebsd.pl> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rQ2U398070+RC21q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X4500, FreeBSD and ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 20:09:37 -0000 --rQ2U398070+RC21q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote: > Mjello. >=20 > Just thought I'd say that we've got a Sun Fire X4500 running with > -CURRENT as of yesterday and ZFS. Works beautifully, after we disabled > MSI and increased VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX. >=20 > Without the increased VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX, we got the usual panic (kmem_map > too small). I haven't tried adjusting maxvnodes - that might also have > helped. However, the machine has 16 GB RAM, so it might as well be used > for something. I'm not quite sure how to tweak the box efficiently, but > for now the bottleneck is our network, so we're going to upgrade some > pieces and try again. >=20 > We configured the 48 drives as follows: >=20 > - ad52 and ad60 are magic - the BIOS is hardcoded to boot from them, so > we put them in a gmirror > - 5 RAIDZ2's, each with 9 disks, for a usable total of 7 per array > - one global hotspare >=20 > # zpool list > NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT > void 20.3T 62.1G 20.3T 0% ONLINE - >=20 > # zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > void 48.2G 15.5T 41.9K /void >=20 > All in all, a fun little toy :) If it's just a little toy for your, maybe you want to replace it with my teddy bear?:) Great to hear that this beast works with FreeBSD!! Any chance we can trick you into performance comparsion between Solaris/ZFS and FreeBSD/ZFS?:) --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --rQ2U398070+RC21q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGOjOEForvXbEpPzQRAuaRAJ9ltDAeW/DIFLaK1j+JBov820ArawCgrvx/ lpeOBRYJdErnr8Fp0qOXD3Q= =yviu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rQ2U398070+RC21q--