slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 01:05:42 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Freek van Hemert <fvhemert at gmail.com>wrote:

> Top tells me: 761 MB Active, 790 Inactive and there is hardly any cpu usage
> (96-98% idle). vfs.numvnodes: around 12500 now (after several hours of
> copying) and stil slowly rising.
>
> Hope you can help me.
>

I believe there were some zfs bugs/performance issues in 8.1 that were made
more visible by having other file system types mounted simultaneously.

Stuff like this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/146410

This has been MFC'd so not sure why it's still open.


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Adam Vande More


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