From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 14:04:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188981065670 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70E28FC1D for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1KHJEp-000ChB-4N; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:04:43 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Adrian Gschwend In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Adrian Gschwend message dated "Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:52:07 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:04:43 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:47 -0000 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I finally invested some time to get iSCSI to work on FreeBSD. Now I do > have an iSCSI disk mounted in the system so I started doing some > performance tests against an NetApp FAS3020 head with an iSCSI LUN > configured for my FreeBSD 7.0-stable box. > > It's a rather old IBM server and I used sysbench to get some stats. > > The results I got were: > > local SCSI disk, UFS: > - -- > Operations performed: 5999 Read, 4001 Write, 12800 Other = 22800 Total > Read 93.734Mb Written 62.516Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (2.2672Mb/sec) > 145.10 Requests/sec executed > - -- > > > NFS share on the NetApp (no tweaking, default NFS mount): > - -- > Operations performed: 6006 Read, 3994 Write, 12800 Other = 22800 Total > Read 93.844Mb Written 62.406Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (11.948Mb/sec) > 764.69 Requests/sec executed > - -- > > > iSCSI with UFS: > - -- > Operations performed: 6004 Read, 3996 Write, 12800 Other = 22800 Total > Read 93.812Mb Written 62.438Mb Total transferred 156.25Mb (489.41Kb/sec) > 30.59 Requests/sec executed > - -- > > which is a rather bad results for iSCSI ;) > > Note that I didn't want to get the real performance so I just took the > default sysbench lines I found in the docs. It was just to get something > to compare to. > > Googling a bit I found this posting here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html > > Is this patch in -CURRENT by now or do I still have to compile the stuff > on my own if I want to do some more tests? > the patches were for -STABLE, and I haven't seen them, but before the patches, try increasing the tag opening, ie camcontrol tags daX -N128 or via iscontrol (and yes it's not idiot proof, nor is is it developer proof :-) > And is anyone actively working on iSCSI right now? I do have some > proposals regarding iscontrol as well, the tool is not yet idiot proof > ;) What would be the appropriate list to post feedback regarding that? absolutely! > > next thing on my list is to try ZFS on the iSCSI share but I would like > to see some better performance on UFS first :) > > BTW in case you wonder why I want to use iSCSI: I am running a > subversion server with rather big repositories using "fsfs" on NFS and I > run into very weird PROPFIND problems (Apache frontent) when importing > large quantities of data and I don't have the problem doing the same on > a local drive of the server. So I guess that's some NFS locking stuff I > couldn't get rid of. > The idea is to replace that with iSCSI and ZFS (I love NetApps snapshot > feature and I want that too in the future, so ZFS) once both is declared > as stable (yes, I have time :) > > cu > > Adrian > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFId1d3qpMUYrZbQBERAhjfAJ96YsvsVyLgeRY3Ah54UM1jvwHKwgCeIaoM > ibhoi7c6jovvBIF/jaI5IQ8= > =mr7E > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >