zfs Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor testing on Debian 7.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2GB larc: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 2GB larc 512MB ZIL: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 4001GB HGST HDS724040AL OS: Debian 7.0, Kernel: 3.9.4-2013061402 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: zfs, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 314.54 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 297.01 |==================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 245.64 |============================== 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 228.94 |============================ SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 36.28 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 36.71 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 37.23 |======================================= 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 36.16 |====================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 821.96 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 588.54 |=========================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 590.77 |=========================== 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 783.66 |==================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 157.46 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 76.35 |================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 82.19 |==================== 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 159.46 |====================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 716.73 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 573.48 |============================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 528.99 |============================ 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 594.19 |================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 194.36 |====================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 102.22 |==================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 86.51 |================= 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 171.72 |================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 1190.86 |===================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 1166.36 |==================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 1161.49 |==================================== 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 1183.52 |===================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 2GB larc ....................... 12596.00 |==================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZIL ............. 12568.11 |==================================== 2GB larc 512MB ZZIL 10GB L2ARC . 12552.62 |==================================== 2GB larc 10GB L2ARC ............ 12573.80 |====================================