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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:24:31 +0200
From:      Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?
Message-ID:  <20120601162431.GA44290@pcjas.obspm.fr>
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 Le 01/06/2012 ? 18:17:38+0200, Wojciech Puchar a écrit
> 
> i dare not to agree about "very fast". very fast is relative term. how did 
> you configured your storage?
> 
> trivial test:
> 
> make 10 100GB files (so none fits in RAM) by
> 
> for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;do ( dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile$x bs=1m 
> count=100k &) ;done
> 
> measure time needed for it to finish (all dd processes exist)
> 
> then install /usr/ports/benchmark/randomio and do some tests of random 
> reads on that files.
> 
> and final test - 10 randomio in parallel with 10 threads each, one per 
> every file.
> 
> then sum up results (IOPS) and divide by amount of disks you have.
> 
> then decide if is it fast or slow :)


When I say fast that's mean I already do some benchmarks with iozone. And
do some graphs to see what the performance are. 

What I can say is it's go lot faster than H700+ 12 disk 600 15k/min. 

And I do those tests on FreeBSD with 12 disk, 24 disk, 36 disk and finaly
48 disk. 

All I can say is ZFS go faster than 12 disk with H700 (and ext3) almost
every time. 

If you like I can privalty send you the url of those graph. Just ask me,

> >>        Eat lot of Ram
> 
> can be controlled by settings in loader.conf.

Yes, but I think that's not a good idea to buy a server with 4 Go and make
him manage 100To through ZFS....

Regards.

JAS
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