Sounds like the device it not ignoring the cache flush requests sent  
down by ZFS/zil commit.
If the SSD is able the drain it's internal buffer to flash on a power  
outage; then it needs to ignore the cache flush.
You can do this on a per device basis, It's kludgy tuning but hope the  
instructions on the evil tuning guide will be enough.

-r

Le 30 janv. 09 à 16:03, Greg Mason a écrit :

>> If there was a latency issue, we would see such a problem with our
>> existing file server as well, which we do not. We'd also have much
>> greater problems than just file server performance.
>>
>> So, like I've said, we've ruled out the network as an issue.
>
> I should also add that I've tested these Thors with the ZIL disabled,
> and they scream! With the cache flush disabled, they also do quite  
> well.
>
> The specific issue i'm trying to solve is the ZIL being slow when  
> using NFS.
>
> I really don't want to have to do something drastic like disabling the
> ZIL to get the performance I need...
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