Bruce,
I called it "folklore" because I was told about the supposed improvement in
disk scrub speed by a couple of Netapp engineers at a recent engineering
meeting I attended. Maybe it would have been better to say "from unofficial
sources, in a casual conversation, sharing afternoon drinks at a Netapp
event".
The reconstruct speed is set at the default of 4. The 2 systems are very
lightly loaded from a user traffic standpoint, cpu load at under 10% during
reads and bursting to 20% during WAFL writes. There are 5 minute periods
every 30 minutes when the cpu goes up to 95% during SnapMirror operations.
Until there is considerably more user traffic on the F840's, I will not be
able to ascertain user impact. My main comment was about the total time to
do the scrub. Of course, time isn't the key factor - impact on user file
activity would be much more relevant, and I don't have numbers for that yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Sterling Woodcock [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 6:36 PM
To: Sam Schorr; 'Todd C. Merrill'
Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com
Subject: Re: F840
> One piece of
> reality-versus-engineering-claims relates to disk scrubbing. We turned
off
> disk scrub on the F760's because it really impacted user file access. I
was
> told this issue would no longer be a problem. Well, it takes the F840's,
> each with 12 shelves of 36 gig drives, from 1AM to 2PM (yes, 2 PM) to
scrub
> under very light load.
And the impact on performance was?
And your scrub speed was set to?
> Another piece of folklore I guess.
What folklore? It's not clear from the text that the engineering claim was
wrong.
Bruce