I have been attempting to set up a test server using OS 200811 (rc2) The system is a 4 Gbyte Dell Optiplex 755, which has dual core 2 duo cpus. I created four 10 Gbyte files and two 20Gbyte files under /home using dd from /dev/zero. I then created two zpools; the first I created a stripe of two of the 10Gbyte files and then mirrored it with the remaining two files, the second pool I simply created a mirror of two 20 Gbyte files.
I then started creating zfs file systems in the pools. The target was to create about 5400 files systems in each pool. My script ran for almost two days and only managed to create 3300 files systems in each pool at which point I killed it. The system is rebooting, or rather I should say trying to reboot as it has been rebooting for over an hourand a half now. Some months ago I tried this using the then current Solaris 10 release on the same system with some minor differences: Instead of two pools I had five. One of the pools received all (n) of the files systems, the other 4 pools got file systems in a random allotment resulting in each pool having on average, n/4 files systems. the Solaris 10 system did not use zfs for the root file system, so the underlying files were on a UFS slice. I did not have smb sharing or compression enabled for the file systems On the Solaris 10 system I had no difficulty creating 15000 zfs file systems, and the system was responsive and rebooted in reasonable times. I really would like to use the two pool setup, compression and smb sharing in production so I am really hoping that this degradation in performance is due to some interaction of hosting the block files on a zfs file system. In production I will be using iscsi volumes and a dual 64bit Xeon system with 8 Gbytes of RAM and will be sharing the file systems with nfs4 and smb. Before I scramble about looking for another drive I can use for a USF file system to test my hypothesis I thought I would see if anyone has any insights. Thanks, Alastair
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