From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 7 15:51:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0341610657C4 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f193.google.com (mail-pz0-f193.google.com [209.85.222.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5AC8FC2D for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by pzk31 with SMTP id 31so2861029pzk.3 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wU2Dxgij2xDwXv9cDa4rufF13mjhVmgQB60Rqqozmuk=; b=TZQZ9c8q99M2dGNmU2lwljuNOQK2MGE2Aom0OxzCPqh8sv0VMIYHMbJdRd1zdotkq0 YKWd4YcTL/Zd/9YI3a6nCBA/npYy1tb5320rvOYwvC2u1lhgkgqrVGpYZoLbZNzxO0wT G62qhvulS1US52hE0iuf1MTcywIp29sbgYLFw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=kwx917F2Z+HFM4sktMhTSyV+D8vZ70Jw0voRrF4xOlWqjr6jZA9y8jAjP3hgjcH0A1 50SesNOmtc15tl6iJU/usrEFuNhOmqbgIQKk7BIk3WMKe6h/Qv1kBa/kwYiVMpYH4g2N K9eU8PF4b19r6Fo7MtYx1kkuxH2ZVJy8uRjUM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.41.12 with SMTP id t12mr2517266rvj.53.1246981866216; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5343B6.2090608@ibctech.ca> References: <4A5209CA.4030304@interazioni.it> <4A5343B6.2090608@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:51:06 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: ZFS in productions 64 bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:51:07 -0000 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati) > > wrote: > > > >> Is anyone using in heavy production environment a ZFS FS with AMD 64 > bit? > > [...snip...] > > > We've > > benchmarked the system maxing out at 550 MBytes/sec write and 5.5 > GBytes/sec > > read. > > Holy crap! > > Would you be so kind as to share some of your relevant pieces of config > on how you have the OS and ZFS set up? > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3689 All the gory details of how we do our backups for over 100 remote servers every night, in under 5 hours, with daily snapshots going back just shy of 6 months (average size of the daily snapshots is 10 GB). If we had 10 Mbps symmetrical connections to our remote sites instead of 2.0/0.5 Mbps ADSL, we could probably drop the backup time to an hour. :) If there's anything missing from there that you would like to know, just ask. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com