I set /etc/system's zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x10000000 and it seems better now. I had previously tried setting it to 2Gb rather than 256Mb as above without success... I should have tried much lower!
It "seems" that when I perform I/O though a WindowsXP hvm, I get a "reasonable" I/O rate, but I'm not sure at this point in time. When a write is made from within the hvm VM, would I expect for the same DMA issue to arise? (I can't really tell either way aty the moment because it's not super fast anyway) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
