Re: Cyrus & ZFS performance

2007-07-04 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > Sun recommends against the 3511 in most literature I read, saying > that the SATA drives > are slower and not going to handle as much IOPS loading. But they > are working out okay > for you? Perhaps it's just vendor upsell to the more expensi

Re: Cyrus & ZFS performance

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Banz
On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > Dale Ghent wrote: >> each with a zpool comprising of a mirror between two se3511s on our >> SAN... > Sun recommends against the 3511 in most literature I read, saying that > the SATA drives > are slower and not going to handle as much IOPS loading

Re: Cyrus & ZFS performance

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent Fox
Dale Ghent wrote: > each with a zpool comprising of a mirror between two se3511s on our > SAN... Sun recommends against the 3511 in most literature I read, saying that the SATA drives are slower and not going to handle as much IOPS loading. But they are working out okay for you? Perhaps it's

Re: Cyrus & ZFS performance

2007-07-04 Thread Vincent Fox
Dale Ghent wrote: > Sorry for the double reply, but by the way, what sort of compression ratio are you seeing on your ZFS filesystems? {cyrus1:vf5:136} zfs get compressratio cyrus/mail NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE cyrus/mail compressratio 1.26x

Re: Cyrus & ZFS performance

2007-07-04 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Dale Ghent wrote: ; On Jul 3, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: ; ; > We currently have 27,323 accounts on it, and it is performing ; > very well, with atime=off and compression=on. ; ; Sorry for the double reply, but by the way, what sort of compression ; ratio are you seei