On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Steve wrote: > It was never the intention that this storage system should be used in this > way... > > And I am now clearning alot of this stuff out.. > > This is very static files, and is rarely used... so traversing it any way is > a rare occasion... > > What has happened is that reading and writing large files which are unrelated > to these ones has become appallingly slow... So I was wondering if just the > presence of so many files was in some way putting alot of stress on the pool, > even if these files arent used very often...
There are (recent) improvements to the allocator that should help this scenario. What release are you running? -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance http://nexenta-atlanta.eventbrite.com (March 16-18, 2010) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
