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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:06:53 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        kpneal@pobox.com
Cc:        FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS raid write performance?
Message-ID:  <55892FBD.7030204@sneakertech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150623042234.GA66734@neutralgood.org>
References:  <5587C3FF.9070407@sneakertech.com> <5587C97F.2000407@delphij.net> <55887810.3080301@sneakertech.com> <20150622221422.GA71520@neutralgood.org> <55888E0D.6040704@sneakertech.com> <20150623002854.GB96928@neutralgood.org> <5588D291.4030806@sneakertech.com> <20150623042234.GA66734@neutralgood.org>

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> I'd go with something similar to how the machine will be used in production.

Hrmm, I was hoping for a quickie synthetic test just to gauge if the 
write speed was anywhere near as low as the network.

> Also, ZFS has the ability to detect sequences of zeros and optimize the
> writing of them.

Yeah, I had a vague memory of something like that, which is why I asked.

>Make sure the amount copied to the machine is, oh, say, at least
> twice (or maybe thrice?) the amount of RAM in the server just to be sure
> you've defeated any caching.

That's... not going to be easy. I don't have that much data broken into 
files of that size kicking around yet. It won't necessarily be a 
"production" test either, given that most clients will be transferring 
only a few gigs over at a time.





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