Benchmarking your EON ZFS NAS

Being able to test the performance of your storage unit is always important. Creating real world application loads and recording accurate statistics is not easy. Or is it? Sun has a great tool for this, called Filebench. Filebench is a new framework for simulating applications on file systems. So let's use filebench to test our EON ZFS NAS. There's a wide range of tests that can be performed and a detailed howto (see example varmail run) is here. Download the filebench_opensolaris-1.3.4_x86_pkg.tar.gz here Unpack it on your zpool

gzip -dc filebench_opensolaris-1.3.4_x86_pkg.tar.gz | tar -xf -

Create the necessary link

(cd /usr ; ln -s ../ZPOOL/filebench/reloc  benchmarks)
(cd /opt ; ln -s ../ZPOOL/filebench/reloc/filebench filebench)

That's it. We are ready to test.

Testing my PIII, Dell 4100, 1Ghz w 512Mb, 2Gb swap and 3x36Gb raidz1 pool royal produced the following:

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copyfiles.stats
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Flowop totals:
closefile2                997ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op       11us/op-cpu
closefile1                997ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op       19us/op-cpu
writefile2                997ops/s  15.0mb/s      0.2ms/op      230us/op-cpu
createfile2               997ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.3ms/op      304us/op-cpu
readfile1                 998ops/s  15.0mb/s      0.1ms/op      109us/op-cpu
openfile1                 998ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.1ms/op      113us/op-cpu

IO Summary:          6002 ops   5983.2 ops/s,      998/997 r/w    29.9mb/s,     
4373uscpu/op
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createfiles.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
closefile1                189ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.6ms/op       19us/op-cpu
writefile1                189ops/s   2.9mb/s     34.1ms/op      229us/op-cpu
createfile1               189ops/s   0.0mb/s     44.1ms/op      367us/op-cpu

IO Summary:        149974 ops    566.2 ops/s,        0/189 r/w     2.9mb/s,    4
9326uscpu/op
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deletefiles.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
deletefile1              2725ops/s   0.0mb/s      3.9ms/op      140us/op-cpu

IO Summary:         50000 ops   2725.3 ops/s,        0/0 r/w     0.0mb/s,       
 0uscpu/op
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mongo.stats
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Flowop totals:
deletefile1               499ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.2ms/op      204us/op-cpu
closefile2                500ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op       13us/op-cpu
readfile1                 500ops/s   7.0mb/s      0.1ms/op      115us/op-cpu
openfile2                 500ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.1ms/op      105us/op-cpu
closefile1                500ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op       18us/op-cpu
appendfilerand1           500ops/s   4.0mb/s      0.3ms/op      292us/op-cpu
openfile1                 500ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.1ms/op       84us/op-cpu

IO Summary:          7006 ops   3496.4 ops/s,      500/500 r/w    11.0mb/s,     
4771uscpu/op
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multistreamread.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread4                    2ops/s   1.8mb/s    455.4ms/op    13636us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread3                    2ops/s   2.0mb/s    428.7ms/op    24988us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread2                    2ops/s   1.7mb/s    473.3ms/op    27942us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread1                    1ops/s   1.4mb/s    556.6ms/op    27728us/op-cpu

IO Summary:            83 ops      7.2 ops/s,        7/0 r/w     6.9mb/s,  13323
21uscpu/op
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multistreamreaddirect.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread4                    3ops/s   2.7mb/s    348.3ms/op    16887us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread3                    3ops/s   3.2mb/s    269.0ms/op    20442us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread2                    3ops/s   2.6mb/s    270.5ms/op    18601us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread1                    3ops/s   2.9mb/s    303.6ms/op    23271us/op-cpu

IO Summary:           128 ops     11.8 ops/s,       12/0 r/w    11.4mb/s,   8253
65uscpu/op
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multistreamwrite.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite4                   6ops/s   5.9mb/s    160.7ms/op     8830us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite3                   5ops/s   5.4mb/s    174.0ms/op     8889us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite2                   6ops/s   6.0mb/s    157.6ms/op     8765us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite1                   6ops/s   6.2mb/s    150.0ms/op     9035us/op-cpu

IO Summary:           248 ops     23.8 ops/s,        0/24 r/w    23.4mb/s,   332
054uscpu/op
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multistreamwritedirect.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite4                   6ops/s   5.4mb/s    170.1ms/op     9011us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite3                   6ops/s   5.5mb/s    167.2ms/op     8884us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite2                   6ops/s   6.2mb/s    148.6ms/op     8877us/op-cpu
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite1                   6ops/s   5.4mb/s    167.6ms/op     9260us/op-cpu

IO Summary:           249 ops     22.9 ops/s,        0/23 r/w    22.5mb/s,   347
543uscpu/op
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randomread.stats
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Flowop totals:
rand-rate                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
rand-read1              11269ops/s  88.0mb/s      0.1ms/op       67us/op-cpu

IO Summary:        112852 ops  11269.1 ops/s,    11269/0 r/w    88.0mb/s,      8
63uscpu/op
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randomwrite.stats
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Flowop totals:
rand-rate                   0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
rand-write1              8569ops/s  66.9mb/s      0.1ms/op       95us/op-cpu

IO Summary:         85813 ops   8569.1 ops/s,        0/8569 r/w    66.9mb/s,    
 1139uscpu/op
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singlestreamread.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqread                    45ops/s  45.1mb/s     21.3ms/op     7863us/op-cpu

IO Summary:           472 ops     45.2 ops/s,       45/0 r/w    45.1mb/s,   2169
77uscpu/op
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singlestreamwrite.stats
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Flowop totals:
limit                       0ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op        0us/op-cpu
seqwrite                   25ops/s  25.2mb/s     36.5ms/op     8801us/op-cpu

IO Summary:           280 ops     25.3 ops/s,        0/25 r/w    25.2mb/s,   341
069uscpu/op