On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Arnaud Brand wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having (as the title suggests) a problem with zfs send/receive. > Command line is like this : > pfexec zfs send -Rp tank/t...@snapshot | ssh remotehost pfexec zfs recv -v -F > -d tank > > This works like a charm as long as the snapshot is small enough. > > When it gets too big (meaning somewhere between 17G and 900G), I get ssh > errors (can't read from remote host). > > I tried various encryption options (the fastest being in my case arcfour) > with no better results. > I tried to setup a script to insert dd on the sending and receiving side to > buffer the flow, still read errors. > I tried with mbuffer (which gives better performance), it didn't get better. > Today I tried with netcat (and mbuffer) and I got better throughput, but it > failed at 269GB transferred. > > The two machines are connected to the switch with 2x1GbE (Intel) joined > together with LACP.
LACP is spawned from the devil to plague mankind. It won't help your ssh transfer at all. It will cause your hair to turn grey and get pulled out by the roots. Try turning it off or using a separate network for your transfer. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
