ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

[Morgan Wesström]

> Hi Morgan,
> 
> thanks for the nice benchmarking trick. I tried this on two ~7.2
> systems:
> 
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (996.77-MHz 686-class CPU)
> -> 14.3MB/s
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
> -> 47.5MB/s
> 
> Reading a big file from the pool of this P4 results in 27.6MB/s netto
> transfer rate (single 7200 rpm SATA disk).
> 
> I would be *very* interested in numbers from the dual core Atom, both
> with 2 CPUs and with 1 active core only. I think that having dual core
> is a must for this setup, so you can use 2 GELI threads and have the ZFS
> threads on top of that to spread the load.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ulrich Spörlein

Credit to pjd@ actually. Picked up the trick myself from freebsd-geom
some time ago :-)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2007-July/002498.html

My Eee PC with a single core N270 is being repaired atm, it suffered a
bad BIOS flash so I can't help you with benchmarks until it's back. I
don't have access to another Atom CPU unfortunately.

/Morgan