Stephen Stogner wrote:
> Hello,
>   We have a S10U5 server sharing with zfs sharing up NFS shares.  While using 
> the nfs mount for a log destination for syslog for 20 or so busy mail servers 
> we have noticed that the throughput becomes severly degraded shortly.  I have 
> tried disabling the zil, turning off cache flushing and I have not seen any 
> changes in performance.  The servers are only pushing about 1MB/s of constant 
> traffic to the server over nfs of log data.  I think this is due to the cache 
> being flushed with every nfs commit, I was wondering if any one had any other 
> suggestions as to what it could be? Thank you.
>   
Not that this is deals with the nfs/zfs performance you are 
experiencing, but why not forward the syslog directly to the target 
machine and allow it to write the syslog files locally to the filesystem?


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paul
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