Agreed, but still: wy zpool iostat 15MB en iostat 615KB?

Regard, Jeff
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On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:05 PM
To: inouk
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs/io performance on Netra X1

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, inouk wrote:
>
> So my question are the following:
>
> 1.- Why zpool iostat is reporting 15MB/s of data read when in reality only 
> 615KB/s is read ?
> 2.- Why sched is taking so much io?
> 3.- What I can do to improve IO performance?  It find it very unbelievable 
> that this is the best performance the current hardware can provide...

Your system has every little RAM (512MB).  It is less than is
recommended for Solaris 10 or for zfs and if it was a PC, it would be
barely enough to run Windows XP.  Since zfs likes to use RAM and
expects and sufficient RAM will be available, it seems likely that
this system is both paging badly, and is also not succeeding to cache
enough data to operate efficiently.  Zfs is re-reading from disk where
normally the data would be cached.

The simple solution is to install a lot more RAM.  2GB is a good
starting point.

Bob
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