On 20 January 2015 at 16:55, Greg Zartman via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Greg Treantos via smartos-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a mixed message from the SmartOS team. On one hand SmartOS is >> pushed as a stateless platform thus the exclusion of UPS monitoring. >> Reading this thread it seems like the answer hey if you want performance >> you need to spend big bucks on a battery backup log device.I don't get it. >> > > This was kind of my initial thought as well. However; after some > research, this is not something isolated to SmartOS. Vmware ESXi has the > same issue with VM containers on zfs. This is more of a zfs "Thing" to be > aware of. I hesitate to call this a problem because the gurus are saying > this behavior is by design. > > Bottom line is that KVM performance is going to really suck on many > hardware platforms unless you deal with it as discussed in this tread. > > Any sync (file) operation will suffer when dealing with latency. This is always a design choice for any system - it's not restricted to smartos. Nicholas ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
