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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:54:33 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        S.N.Grigoriev <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS write speed
Message-ID:  <7FF9CDFF-3FA0-45EA-85F5-A236AEFC03C7@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <398231288212690@web127.yandex.ru>
References:  <398231288212690@web127.yandex.ru>

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Am 27.10.2010 um 22:51 schrieb S.N.Grigoriev:

> Hi list,
>=20
> I've got very low write speed using ZFS on a SATA disk.
> My HDD configuration is:
> ad4: 70911MB <WDC WD740BLFS-01YBU0 04.04V01> at ata2-master UDMA100 =
SATA 3Gb/s
> ad6: 78532MB <Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 PF2OA60A> at ata3-master UDMA100 =
SATA 1.5Gb/s
> ad8: 1430799MB <WDC WD15EARS-00MVWB0 51.0AB51> at ata4-master UDMA100 =
SATA 3Gb/s

The EARS has 4k sectors, if I'm not mistaken.  I don't recall the =
eventual outcome, but there was a long thread on stable or hackers on =
how to ensure proper alignment and (minimun) 4k-sized writes to make =
sure the disk doesn't have to do a read-modify-write cycle, so try and =
search the archives.

> ad4 and ad6 are single-slice disks (UFS2 with soft updates)
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> ZFS configuration is following:
> zpool create Z ad8
> zfs create Z/music
> zfs create Z/video
> All ZFS parameters are default.
> kern.maxvnodes =3D 1000000
>=20
> To test my configuration I recursively copied from ad6 to ad8 two =
directories.
> The first one contains MP3 files (average size =3D 10MB).
> The second one contains AVI files (average size =3D 1GB).=20
>=20
> To compare performance I repeated above tests with ad8 using UFS2 with =
soft updates.
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> 18GB of MP3 files required 10m35s to copy to UFS2 and 21m40s to copy =
to ZFS.
> 30GB of AVI files required 16m6s to copy to UFS2 and 1h2m39s to copy =
to ZFS.
>=20
> I used for tests FreeBSD 8.1R amd64. Amount of RAM on my machine is =
6GB.
>=20
> Any tips?
>=20
> --=20
> Regards,
> Serguey.
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