[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS behavior under heavy load (I/O that is)

2006-12-13 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Thanks, I just downloaded Update 3 and hopefully the problem will go away. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS behavior under heavy load (I/O that is)

2006-12-12 Thread Anton B. Rang
I think you may be observing that fsync() is slow. The file will be written, and visible to other processes via the in-memory cache, before the data has been pushed to disk. vi forces the data out via fsync, and that can be quite slow when the file system is under load, especially before a fix