On 25.06.2010 14:32, Mika Borner wrote: > > It seems we are hitting a boundary with zfs send/receive over a network > link (10Gb/s). We can see peak values of up to 150MB/s, but on average > about 40-50MB/s are replicated. This is far away from the bandwidth that > a 10Gb link can offer. > > Is it possible, that ZFS is giving replication a too low > priority/throttling it too much? > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
you can probably improve overall performance by using mbuffer [1] to stream the data over the network. At least some people have reported increased performance. mbuffer will buffer the datastream and disconnect zfs send operations from network latencies. Get it there: original source: http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html binary package: http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWmbuffer/ - Thomas _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
