Bit of unix-side network tuning today. Tremendous gains on the sequential tests! In case you made the same mistake I did on your solaris-based ZFS storage rig, reconfigure your network with ipadm instead of ifconfig and see if you get a huge boost too! (Btw, this is a 4Gb test so all the reads are from the ARC cache. write-back cache is also enabled.)
| Test name | Latency | Avg iops | Avg MBps | cpu load |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Throughput-100%Read | 8.26 | 7072 | 221 | 10% |
| RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read | 3.68 | 12254 | 95 | 20% |
| Max Throughput-50%Read | 8.71 | 6771 | 211 | 16% |
| Random-8k-70%Read | 4.07 | 13111 | 102 | 20% |