Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Todd Pisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is this typical for these devices?
> 
> Hardly, to my understanding random 4k write should take few hundred
> usec at worst, so 60 writes/sec is either an error in the spec or
> something unusual in hardware.

I think I've found the issue-- the SATA controller in this system (Intel ESB2)
was operating in "compatible" mode (read: IDE).  I recall reading that ZFS
performs poorly on IDE due to a lack of code optimization.  I tried activating
AHCI mode in the BIOS, but that made my system unbootable, as the device names
all changed.

I'm reinstalling with AHCI on, so I'll follow up once we've been able to re-run
our tests.

Regards,
Eric
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