[OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

[Jonathan Adams]

you could run a "zpool iostat 5", or a basic "iostat -zxc 5" and watch
how much is being written/read and watch for it to go quiet ...

what speed connection are you accessing at the other end of the internet?

On 6 January 2012 11:37, Open Indiana <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
> I used for testing the solaris 11 ISO. It is 440MB.
> (sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso)
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nslookup at gmail.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2012 12:25
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding
> Iscsi
>
> what is the 440Mb file that you've transferred? is it easily compressed?
>
> On 6 January 2012 10:51, Open Indiana <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
>> I have a rather stupid question i guess..
>>
>> The following is the case
>> 1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within
>> OpeinIndiana 2. the zfs drive has lzo compression enabled 3. I have
>> OpenVPN running on this homeserver 4. I have connected my laptop via
>> OpenVPN to my homeserver 5. Transmissionspeed to the internet from my
>> laptop's point of view is 2048kb SDSL 6. I created a new NTFS drive
>> (E:) on my laptop via de iscsi initiator (windows 7 pro) that points
>> to my homeserver.
>> 7. I just saved a 440 MB file within 1 minute to the new E: drive
>>
>> Although windows told me within 1 minute that it had transferred the
>> data and closed the pop-up screen I remain wondering how long it takes
>> before the file really is transferred to my homeserver (is cached
>> somewhere?) . Or is it really transferred that fast? (approx 50MB/s
>> Windows reported)
>>
>> stmfadm list-lu -v
>> LU Name: 600144F023A1040000004F06CC190001
>>    Operational Status: Online
>>    Provider Name     : sbd
>>    Alias             : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>>    View Entry Count  : 1
>>    Data File         : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>>    Meta File         : not set
>>    Size              : 107374182400
>>    Block Size        : 512
>>    Management URL    : not set
>>    Vendor ID         : OI
>>    Product ID        : COMSTAR
>>    Serial Num        : not set
>>    Write Protect     : Disabled
>>    Writeback Cache   : Enabled
>>    Access State      : Active
>>
>>
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