Re: [Xen-users] Spectacularly disappointing disk throughput

[Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

yes the PV disk and network drivers make the difference between heaven
and hell for FreeBSD domUs.
Do not bother with any more benchmarks until you have them working :)

2012/2/3 Chris Marget <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I would not read too much into these performance numbers.  I have found that 
>> FreeNAS is pretty slow even directly on physical hardware.  Using exactly 
>> the same hardware, OpenSolaris or Nexenta is way faster than FreeNAS.

FreeNAS will completely pwn both on a 256MB system ;)
But yes, in general it's slower; I also kept using FreeNAS instead of
Nexenta due to the smaller footprint and, my, I loved the clean UI,
until they redid it for (as the log said "adding more round edges")

> I don't expect it to be blazingly fast -- that's not really a priority.

Florian

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