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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:42:21 -0500
From:      Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: NFS reads vs. writes
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On Jan 4, 2016, at 22:40, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> =
wrote:
>=20

>> I have a file server that I am going through the task of optimizing =
for
>> NFS traffic (to store VM images). My first attempt, because I knew =
about
>> the need for an SSD based SLOG for the ZIL was using a pair of Intel =
535
>> series SSD=92s. The performance with the SLOG/ZIL on the SSD was =
_worse_.
>> Turns out that those SSD=92s have poor small block (8 KB) random =
write
>> performance (not well advertised). So I asked for advice for choosing =
a
>> _fast_ SSD on the OpenZFS list and had a number of people recommend =
the
>> Intel DC-Sxxxx series of SSDs.

> Something like zeusram or ddrdrive is probably going to yield the most
> preformant solution for zfs sync writes.

Agreed, but I don=92t have the budget for that :-(

--
Paul Kraus
paul@kraus-haus.org




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