On 8/20/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/20/06, trevor pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Team > > During a ZFS presentation I had a question from Vernon which I could not > answer and did not find with a quick look through the archives. > > Q: What's the effect (if any) of only having on Floating Point Processor > on Niagara when you turn on ZFS compression? > not an expert, but most if not all compression is integer based, and I don't think floating point is supported inside the kernel anyway so it has to be integer based.
Not too long ago Roch said "compression runs in the context of a single thread per pool", which makes me worry much more about the speed of a single core doing all of the compression for a pool. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
