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Date:      Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:55:41 -0600 (CST)
From:      Dan The Man <dan@sunsaturn.com>
To:        Kurt Touet <ktouet@gmail.com>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: samba+zfs
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Well been running a week now and problems again. 3 3 terrabyte drives are 
@85% with compression enabled, i have to wonder if that is part of the 
problem.



Dan.



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On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Kurt Touet wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/11/2011, at 17:32, Garrett Cooper wrote
>>>> dd's of large files (spooled backups going to tape) to /dev/null are as slow as Samba.
>>>
>>>    - Dedupe?
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>>    - Compression?
>>
>> On the mail spool & ports, but not on the tape spool.
>>
>>>    - How much RAM?
>>
>> 8GB.
>>
>>>    - What debug options do you have enabled in the kernel?
>>
>> It is 8.2-GENERIC so.. no WITNESS (for example)
>>
>>>    I've been noticing a slowdown in some respects with NFS/SMB, but I
>>> suspected it was because I have an re(4) based NIC. ZFS has also wired
>>> down a lot of my system memory for the L2ARC…
>>
>>
>> re isn't great but I wouldn't expect it to slow down over time.. Unless bounce buffers got used more and more or something.
>>
>> I have an em0 card in this system - but in any case it is slow locally (i.e. dd a large file with 64k block size).
>>
>> --
>> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
>> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
>> "The nice thing about standards is that there
>> are so many of them to choose from."
>>  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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>>
>>
>
> Right now (while experience slow writes via samba+zfs) this is general
> read speed off a 4 x 1.5TB sata2 raidz1:
>
> # dd if=test.file of=/dev/null
> 13753502+1 records in
> 13753502+1 records out
> 7041793036 bytes transferred in 100.020897 secs (70403218 bytes/sec)
>
> That's not in the same ball park of slow writes, but it is below what
> I expect for reads.
>
> My setup is a little odd:  4x1.5tb raidz sata2 on mobo + 2 x 2tb
> mirror on sata1 pci controller, zfs v28, stable/9 r227357, amd x4 810
> 2.6ghz, 4gb ram, no dedupe, no compression, daily snapshots saved for
> 7 days
>
> The above file read was stored before the 2 x 2tb mirror addition, so
> it was a solely read off the sata2 mobo ports.   Reading off of
> something more recent (and split amongst both raidz1 and mirror
> vdevs):
>
> # dd if=test2.file of=/dev/null
> 9154715+1 records in
> 9154715+1 records out
> 4687214153 bytes transferred in 82.963181 secs (56497522 bytes/sec)
>
> This is, again, seems slower than usual, but not as terrible as the
> write speeds that I've been seeing via samba.
>
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