Strange performance characteristics with ZFS

[Claus Guttesen]

> I'm experiencing what (to me) seems to be strange performance with
> ZFS.  I have it set up as follows:
>
> [steven at universe /universe]$ sudo zpool status
>    pool: universe
> state: ONLINE
> I share it over NFS to a linux machine.  I'm trying to write a very
> large (30GB) disk image to it over nfs, and it goes in short fits and
> bursts.
>
> It copies a few (mega?)bytes of data (not sure how much exactly), and
> top shows:

How much ram is installed?

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regards
Claus

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