Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:34:38PM +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: > > adrian cockcroft writes: > > Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering of > > random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on read, > > and would also guard against corrupt blocks i

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread johansen-osdev
Peter: Would you describe your swap configuration? The output from df -hlk and swap -l would be helpful. Thanks, -j On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: > We use solaris 10 at my company, but I noticed this behavior is the > same/worse on sxde, and I wanted to know i

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:34 +0200, Roch - PAE wrote: > adrian cockcroft writes: > > Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering of > > random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on read, > > and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. A

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Bart Smaalders
adrian cockcroft wrote: > Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering > of random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on > read, and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. Anon-ZFS? This is planned as part of the VM 2.0 project. Note t

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Roch - PAE
adrian cockcroft writes: > Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering of > random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on read, > and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. Anon-ZFS? > Adrian Good point. And It works already, swap to

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Keith Bierman
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:58 AM, adrian cockcroft wrote: Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering of random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on read, and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. Anon-ZFS? why not use a very smal

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread adrian cockcroft
Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering of random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on read, and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. Anon-ZFS? Adrian ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-d

Re: [perf-discuss] Poor swap performance

2007-08-21 Thread Roch - PAE
adrian cockcroft writes: > I think this is a good forum to discuss a systematic performance issue with > swap. The problem has been there for a long time, I tried to get people > interested in doing something about it around ten years ago, I left Sun in > 2004 and don't even use Sun's at my c