I'm seeing similar performance degradation on xenial except that the server I used seems to be pretty slow to start with too:
root@athos:~# sh test.sh Creating 100 clones Took: 11 seconds (9/s) Creating 200 clones Took: 46 seconds (4/s) Creating 400 clones Took: 297 seconds (1/s) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567557 Title: Performance degradation of "zfs clone" when under load To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1567557/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs