>Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> Similarly, the bulk of the synchronous I/O done during the import of SMF >> manifests early in boot after an install or upgrade are wasted effort.. > >I've done hundreds of installs. Empirically, my observation is that >the SMF manifest import scales well with processors. In other words, >I don't notice it being I/O bound. I suppose I could move my dtrace >boot analysis scripts to the first boot and verify...
My observation is not the same; I see it scaling with CPU speed. It's not synchronous I/O; it's synchronous door calls to the svc.configd, 100s of them. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
