ZFS is a 128 bit file system. The performance on your 32-bit CPU will not be that good. ZFS was designed for a 64-bit CPU. Another GB of RAM might help. There are a bunch of post in the archive about 32-bit CPUs and performance.
-Sean Orvar Korvar wrote: > I am using Solaris Express Community build 67 installed on a 40GB harddrive > (UFS filesystem on Solaris), dual boot with Windows XP. I have a zfsraid with > 4 samsung drives. It is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 1GB RAM. > > > > > When I copy a 1.3G file from ZFSpool to ZFSpool the command "time cp file > file2" gives this output: > > bash-3.00# time cp PAGEFILE.SYS pagefil3 > real 0m49.719s > user 0m0.004s > sys 0m10.160s > > Which gives like 26MB/sec. > > > > > When I copy that file from ZFS to UFS I get: > real 0m35.091s > user 0m0.004s > sys 0m15.337s > > Which gives 37MB/sec. > > > However, in each of the above scenarios, the "system monitor" shows that all > RAM is used up and it begins to swap (the swap uses like 40MB). My system has > never swapped before (Windows swaps immediately upon startup, ha!). The cpu > utilization is like 50%. > > > > > > When I copy that file from UFS to UFS I get: > real 1m36.315s > user 0m0.003s > sys 0m11.327s > However, the CPU utilization is around 20% and RAM usage never exceeds 600MB > - it doesnt use the swap. > > > > > > > When I copy that file from ZFS to /dev/null I get this output: > real 0m0.025s > user 0m0.002s > sys 0m0.007s > which can't be correct. Is it wrong of me to use "time cp fil fil2" when > measuring disk performance? > > > > > > I mount NTFS with packages FSWfsmisc and FSWfspart, by Moinak Ghosh (and > based on Martin Rosenau's work and part of Moinak's BeleniX work) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
