Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> - When the filesystems have compress=ON I see the following: reads from compressed filesystems come in waves; zpool will report for long durations (60+ seconds) no read activity while the write activity is consistently reported at 20MB/S (no variation in the write rate throughtout the test).

[zfs-discuss] ZFS write performance problem with compression set to ON

2006-08-16 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Test setup: - E2900 with 12 US-IV+ 1.5GHz processor, 96GB memory, 2x2Gbps FC HBAs, MPxIO in round-robbin config. - 50x64GB EMC disks presented on both 2 FCs. - ZFS pool defined using all 50 disks - Multiple ZFS filesystems built on the above pool. I'm observing the following: - When the