Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedup performance hit

2010-06-13 Thread John J Balestrini
Howdy all, I too dabbled with dedup and found the performance poor with only 4gb ram. I've since disabled dedup and find the performance better but "zpool list" still shows a 1.15x dedup ratio. Is this still a hit on disk io performance? Aside from copying the data off and back onto the filesys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very serious performance degradation

2010-05-18 Thread John J Balestrini
Howdy, Is dedup on? I was having some pretty strange problems including slow performance when dedup was on. Disabling dedup helped out a whole bunch. My system only has 4gig of ram, so that may have played a part too. Good luck! John On May 18, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > T

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to Destroy One Particular Snapshot

2010-05-16 Thread John J Balestrini
Finally, it's been destroyed! Last night I turned dedup off and sent the destroy command and simply let it run over night. Also, I let zpool iostat 30 run as well. It showed no activity for the first 6-1/2 hours and then a flurry of activity for 13-minutes. That snapshot is finally gone and th