Hi all, First, kudos to all the ZFS folks for a killer technology. We use several Sun 7000 series boxes at work and love the features.
I recently decided to build an Opensolaris server for home. I just put the box together over the weekend. It is using an LSI 1068E based HBA (Supermicro FWIW) and 8 2TB WD drives in a single raidz2 pool. It is a clean install of snv_128a with the only changes from vanilla being to install the CIFS server packages and create and share a CIFS share. I started copying over all the data from my existing workstation. When copying files (mostly multi-gigabyte DV video files), network throughput drops to zero for ~1/2 second every 8-15 seconds. This throughput drop corresponds to drive activity on the Opensolaris box. The ZFS pool drives show no activity except every 8-15 seconds. As best as I can guess, the Opensolaris box is caching traffic and batching it to disk every so often. I guess I didn't expect disk writes to interrupt network traffic. Is this correct? One other item to note, the pool is currently degraded as one of the drives was apparently damaged during shipping and died almost immediately after I created my pool. I completely removed this drive to RMA it. I'd be happy to provide any info needed. Thanks in advance. Richard Bruce -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
