Re: speeding up zfs send | recv (update)

From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:09:54 UTC
On 5/27/2021 5:00 AM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> With spinning rust that has other things processing your seek times is
> likely the limiting factor.
>
> Have a look at gstat -pd while the send it happening.
>
>
Thanks, I think I am just running into the limitations of the rusty
hardware.   I do notice on my other pool which has more spindles with a
pair of vdevs, its a bit faster on the sends.  Perhaps adding another
vdev of disks will help squeeze out a bit more performance for now.


    ---Mike