> ) The write cache is non volatile, but ZFS hasn't
> been configured
> to stop flushing it (set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush =
>  1).

These are a pair of 2540 with dual-controllers, definitely non-volatile cache.

We set the zfs_nocacheflush=1 and that improved things considerably.

ZFS filesystem (2540 arrays):
 fsyncfile3                434ops/s   0.0mb/s     17.3ms/op   977us/op-cpu
 fsyncfile2                434ops/s   0.0mb/s     17.8ms/op   981us/op-cpu

However still not very good compared to UFS.

We turned off ZIL with zil_disable=1 and WOW!
ZFS ZIL disabled:
 fsyncfile3               1148ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op   18us/op-cpu
 fsyncfile2               1148ops/s   0.0mb/s      0.0ms/op   18us/op-cpu

Not a good setting to use in production but useful data.

Anyhow will take some time to get OpenSolaris onto the system, will report back 
then.
 
 
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