Ian Collins wrote:
> I've just finished a small application to couple zfs_send and
> zfs_receive through a socket to remove ssh from the equation and the
> speed up is better than 2x.  I have a small (140K) buffer on the sending
> side to ensure the minimum number of sent packets
> 
> The times I get for 3.1GB of data (b101 ISO and some smaller files) to a
> modest mirror at the receive end are:
> 
> 1m36s for cp over NFS,
> 2m48s for zfs send though ssh and
> 1m14s through a socket.

So the best speed is equivalent to 42MB/s.

Can't tell from this what the limiting factor is (might be the disks).

It would be interesting to try putting a buffer (5 x 42MB = 210MB 
initial stab) at the recv side and see if you get any improvement.

-- 
Andrew
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