Hello James, Thursday, September 7, 2006, 8:58:10 PM, you wrote: JD> with ZFS I have found that memory is a much greater limitation, even JD> my dual 300mhz u2 has no problem filling 2x 20MB/s scsi channels, even JD> with compression enabled, using raidz and 10k rpm 9GB drives, thanks JD> to its 2GB of ram it does great at everything I throw at it. On the JD> other hand my blade 1500 ram 512MB with 3x 18GB 10k rpm drives using JD> 2x 40MB/s scsi channels , os is on a 80GB ide drive, has problems JD> interactively because as soon as you push zfs hard it hogs all the ram JD> and may take 5 or 10 seconds to get response on xterms while the JD> machine clears out ram and loads its applications/data back into ram.
IIRC correctly there's is a bug in SPARC ata driver which when combined with ZFS expresses itself. Unless you use only ZFS on those SCSI drives...? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
