On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > shouldn't the newer server have LESS load? > Please forgive my ubernoobness.
Depends on what it's doing! Load average is really how many process are waiting to run, so it's not always a useful metric. If there are processes waiting on disk, you can have high load with almost no cpu use. Check the iowait with iostat or top. You've got a pretty wide stripe, which isn't going to give the best performance, especially for random write workloads. Your old 3 vdev config will have better random write performance. Check to see what's using the CPU with top or prstat. prstat gives better info for threads, imo. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
