On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Chris Paul <chris.p...@rexconsulting.net>wrote:
> OK I have a very large zfs snapshot I want to destroy. When I do this, the > system nearly freezes during the zfs destroy. This is a Sun Fire X4600 with > 128GB of memory. Now this may be more of a function of the IO device, but > let's say I don't care that this zfs destroy finishes quickly. I actually > don't care, as long as it finishes before I run out of disk space. > > So a suggestion for room for growth for the zfs suite is the ability to > lazily destroy snapshots, such that the destroy goes to sleep if the cpu > idle time falls under a certain percentage. > What build of OpenSolaris are you using ? Is it nearly freezing during all the process or just at the end ? There was another thread where a similar issue was discusses a week ago. -- Giovanni
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