I've done similar tests on the other machine, and all looks fine. But why on this machine ZFS works slower than UFS? When I make UFS file system on the same disk, rtorrent hashing works 10 times faster. And while hashing, HDD is used three times intensively with ZFS (noticed by flashing LED). I have an amd64 Core2Duo processor, 4 Gb of RAM, what is not enough for ZFS? What kernel tuning can help me? On 11.02.2008, at 17:38, Ivan Voras wrote: > Alexey Tarasov wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I am trying to use ZFS to store my torrent downloads. I noticed that >> hashing in rtorrent works 10 times slower than the same disk with >> UFS. > > I've done some extensive file system testing and here are my results > with bonnie++ for UFS+SU vs ZFS on AMD64, 6 GB RAM (1 GB for kmem), > on a > RAID10 volume of 15 kRPM SAS drives: > > UFS+SU: write: 109 MB/s, read: 111 MB/s, random file creation: 36500 > f/s > ZFS: write: 95 MB/s, read: 180 MB/s (!!), random file creation: > 40522 f/s > > Read speed for ZFS seems too high to be valid, it's probably some > cache > effects (though tests were done on a file more than twice the RAM > size). > In any case, ordinary hashing should cause sequential reading, and > these > seem really fast. > > There could be one more thing: ZFS tries to write data sequentially, > like a log file system, and if the download was done in "parallel", > many > pieces from different areas of the file at the same time (which is > normally the case for torrents), it might have gotten very > fragmented on > the drive. > > You can verify this by creating a similarily-sized ordinary file > with dd > (the file should be large enough not to fit in the memory cache, or > the > test should be done after a reboot) and then run iostat in one console > while reading the files (separately, one at a time, with dd or cat) in > another. A very fragmented file should have significantly higher tps > count. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org > " -- Alexey Tarasov (\__/) (='.'=) E[: | | | | :]З (")_(")Received on Mon Feb 11 2008 - 16:05:21 UTC
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