Strange performance characteristics with ZFS

[Steven Schlansker]

Claus Guttesen wrote:
>> 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?
> 

2.5GB, with an Athlon64 3200+