On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Michael Herf <mbh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written about my slow-to-dedupe RAIDZ. > > After a week of.....waiting....I finally bought a little $100 30G OCZ > Vertex and plugged it in as a cache. > > After <2 hours of warmup, my zfs send/receive rate on the pool is > >16MB/sec (reading and writing each at 16MB as measured by zpool > iostat). > That's up from <3MB/sec, with a RAM-only cache on a 6GB machine. > > The SSD has about 8GB utilized right now, and the L2ARC benefit is amazing. > Quite an amazing improvement for $100...recommend you don't dedupe without > one. > > mike > _______________________________________________ > this is nice to know. I just ordered 3 64 gb kingston ssd's (model snv125-S2) I was going to use 2 for the root pool and 1 for L2ARC (i was also considering slicing the 2 for rpool into 20 gb/42 gb and using the other 2 slices for l2arc as well...)
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