> Can you tell us the build > version of the opensolaris? I'm currently on b134 (but I had the performance issues with 2009.06, b130, b131, b132, and b133 as well).
I may end up swapping the Phenom II X2 550 with an Athlon II X4 630 that I've put into another M4A785-M system. I noticed that the eight-disk scrub came close to maxing out both cores of the Phenom - so it wouldn't hurt to have a couple more cores in place of the extra cache and clock speed. However, even with the CPU nearly pegged, it was still serving files smoothly - vastly better than the rag-tag controller assortment. If you're going to run a big array on OpenSolaris, it's a good idea to use a real HBA instead of consumer-grade interfaces. :o) The nice thing about the SASUC8I / SAS3081E-R is that, by default, it presents the array to the operating system as individual drives - perfect for ZFS. scrub: scrub completed after 1h33m with 0 errors on Thu Mar 11 19:17:01 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t1d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t7d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t6d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t4d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t0d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t5d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t2d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c11t3d0p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss