May 23, 2012

Post: FlashCache: tpcc workload with FusionIO card as cache

… is also FusionIO IO-Xtreme 80GB card, which is however MLC based and it could be not best choice for FlashCache usage ( as there high write rate on FlashCache for both reading and writing to… previous post, so let me just post the results with FlashCache on FusionIO in 20% dirty page, 80% dirty pages and write…

Post: FlashCache: first experiments

…, but caching in FlashCache ( which located on SSD) The results for Read-Only case: As expected with FlashCache the results are very… smaller performance). So there results for FlashCache with 20% and 80% of dirty pages and FlashCache based on Intel X25-M: So… be interesting to see how it works when we put FlashCache on FusionIO cards instead of Intel SSD.

Post: FlashCache: tpcc workload

… X25-M: 7084.483 TpmC on FlashCache with 20% dirty pages: 2632.892 TpmC on FlashCache with 80% dirty pages: 4468.883… probably 2h was not enough to warmup FlashCache enough. And this is interesting problem with FlashCache what I see. Warmup by simple… next rounds I am looking to run similar benchmarks on FusionIO card. P.S. And if CentOS team reads this post…

Post: Virident tachIOn: New player on Flash PCI-E cards market

… fair to get comparison with FusionIO card, especially for write pressure case As you may know FusionIO recommends to have space reservation to get sustainable write performance (Tuning Techniques for Writes). I took FusionIO ioDrive 160GB… impressive, and it can be quite important in workloads like FlashCache, where card have both concurrent read and write pressure Quite…

Post: Write performance on Virident tachIOn card

… benchmark using the same methodology as in my experiment with FusionIO, which was stripped for performance. Also using my script, Virident… use an SSD card as a cache layer (say, with FlashCache), as, usually for caching, you will try to fill all… point and full capacity point is much smaller compared with FusionIO Duo (without additional spare capacity reservation). * Also, looking at the…

Comment: FlashCache: tpcc workload

…, maybe FlashCache will not work as expected in any case. For FusionIO you may look into their DirectCache cache instead of FlashCache. Virident tachIOn cards (only SLC now) shows acceptable performance with full disk, so they may work better with FlashCache.

Comment: FlashCache: tpcc workload with FusionIO card as cache

I forgot to mention on the topic that I’m *extremely* excited to test FlashCache soon. We have several DB’s that are too large to fit on an affordable amount of FusionIO storage, but that probably have *working* sets that would fit in the FusionIO card in a cached manner. *drools*