Have you tried disabling the zil cache flushing?

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Cache_Flushes

Asif Iqbal wrote:
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>
> I have 6 6140s with 96 disks. Out of which 64 of them are Seagate
> ST3300007FC (300GB - 10000 RPM FC-AL)
>
> I created 16k seg size raid0 luns using single fcal disks. Then
> created a zpool with 8 4+1 raidz1 using those luns, out of single
> disks. Also set the zfs nocache flush to `1' to
> take advantage of the 2G NVRAM cache of the controllers.
>
> I am using one port per controller. Rest of them are down (not in
> use). Each controller port
> speed is 4Gbps.
>
> All luns have one controller as primary and second one as secondary
>
> I am getting only 125MB/s according to the zpool IO.
>
> I should get ~ 512MB/s per IO.
>
> Also is it possible to get 2GB/s IO by using the leftover ports of the
> controllers?
>
> Is it also possible to get 4GB/s IO by aggregating the controllers (w/
> 8 ports totat)?
>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2007 5:30 PM, Asif Iqbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I have the following layout
>>
>> A 490 with 8 1.8Ghz and 16G mem. 6 6140s with 2 FC controllers using
>> A1 anfd B1 controller port 4Gbps speed.
>> Each controller has 2G NVRAM
>>
>> On 6140s I setup raid0 lun per SAS disks with 16K segment size.
>>
>> On 490 I created a zpool with 8 4+1 raidz1s
>>
>> I am getting zpool IO of only 125MB/s with zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1 in
>> /etc/system
>>
>> Is there a way I can improve the performance. I like to get 1GB/sec IO.
>>
>> Currently each lun is setup as primary A1 and secondary B1 or vice versa
>>
>> I also have write cache eanble according to CAM
>>
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>> Asif Iqbal
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