[OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

[Rune Tipsmark]

Well that sucks... I guess one more reason to move to NV-Dimms to replace slow SLC cards.
Br,
Rune

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us] 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 6:48 AM
To: Rune Tipsmark
Cc: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] slog limits write speed more than it should

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Rune Tipsmark wrote:

> 
> Looking at the first link he clearly states that ZIL is written to in 
> a round robin fashion, I was under the impression that 2 log devices would then be faster than 1…unless mirrored of course.

This could be a mistaken impression.  The slog commits each write before proceeding to the next write.  If the involved SSDs have a fixed minimum write latency, then this would limit the maximum transaction rate regardless of the number of SSDs involved.  There could be an advantage to more SSDs if the additional time between writes allows the SSD to more effectively prepare for the next write and reduce the write latency.

Bob
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