zfs benchmarks and 7 disk raidz oddity
Ruslan Kovtun
yalur at mail.ru
Sat Sep 20 18:53:17 UTC 2008
Hi.
Thank you very much, very useful information.
It is interesting when we can use this on 7.x?
В сообщении от Суббота 20 сентября 2008 Andrew Snow написал(a):
> Hi all,
>
> I am running 8-CURRENT with ZFS patches on a 3ghz Core2Duo with Intel
> P45 chipset. I took some benchmarks of ZFS on six old SATA disks and
> one PATA, onboard controllers only, and I expect you are interested to
> see the results. The disks range in size from 200gb to 320gb.
>
> I tried several configurations with quick and dirty testing. Listed
> below is the sequential megabytes/sec rating as measured by dd bs=1m for
> a 10GB file. All ZFS settings were left at their defaults.
>
>
> Conf Write Read (MB/s)
> ------------------------------------
> 7 disk RAIDZ2 220 305
> 7 disk RAIDZ1 84 361
> 7 disk striped 318 409
> 7 disk stripe copies=2 140 164
>
> 6 disk RAIDZ2 173 260
> 6 disk RAIDZ1 238 307
> 6 disk striped 280 346
> 6 disk 2xRAIDZ1 striped 188 251
> 6 disk striped mirrors 164 323
> 6 disk stripe copies=2 151 179
>
>
> A few notes:
>
> 1. using copies=2 is a nice way to be able to get RAID1-like mirroring
> reliability but on an odd number of disks. However you take a
> noticeable performance penalty: Write speed is fine but read speed is
> almost half of what RAID0+1 achieved.
>
> 2. RAIDZ1 and RAIDZ2 are fast and efficient. However in total it caused
> the system to use almost all of one CPU core during writing.
>
> 3. There seemed to be a bug with 7 disks and RAIDZ1 - the write
> performance was terrible! When I ran "gstat" I noticed it was spending
> much time writing to only two disks most of the time, which became a
> serious bottleneck - the worst write score of the lot. Read was fine.
> Perhaps the algorithm isn't optimised for choosing parity locations out
> of exactly 7 disks?
>
>
>
> - Andrew
>
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