Chris Banal <cba...@gmail.com> writes: > We have a SunFire X4500 running Solaris 10U5 which does about 5-8k nfs > ops of which about 90% are meta data. In hind sight it would have been > significantly better to use a mirrored configuration but we opted for > 4 x (9+2) raidz2 at the time. We can not take the downtime necessary > to change the zpool configuration. > > We need to improve the meta data performance with little to no > money. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I believe the latest Solaris update will improve metadata caching. always good to be up-to-date on patches, no? > Is there such a thing as a Sun supported NVRAM PCI-X card compatible > with the X4500 which can be used as an L2ARC? I think they only have PCIe, and it hardly qualifies as "little to no money". http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/sss/f20/specs.xml I'll second the recommendations for Intel X25-M for L2ARC if you can spare a SATA slot for it. -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
