[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver running oi_151a.  How
> can I determine the performance improvement from adding log and cache
> devices?  I'm using filebench with the fileserver personality.  Is
> that my best choice?  So far, I've tried filebench directly on the
> server and also on an NFS client.  What statistics should I be
> watching?

So, can nobody answer my questions?

> To begin, I'm using a single 1 TB SAS disk on the server, without log
> or cache devices.  I intend to add an Intel 311 SSD for the log and
> Intel 320 SSDs for the cache.  I'd like to ensure that these improve
> NFS performance.  I'd like CIFS and zfs send performance to be
> reasonable as well.

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