zfs send/receive: is this slow?

[Artem Belevich]

> As soon as I opened this email I knew what it would say.
>
>
> # time zfs send storage/bacula at transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive
> storage/compressed/bacula-mbuffer
> in @  197 MB/s, out @  205 MB/s, 1749 MB total, buffer   0% full
...
> Big difference.  :)

I'm glad it helped.

Does anyone know why sending/receiving stuff via loopback is so much
slower compared to pipe?

--Artem