Re: tuning zfs for large file reads

2010-07-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
Can't really help you but here is couple of notes: 1. iostat -x output seems to be even more informative for disk I/O 2. Despite large amount of RAM (8GB) your ZFS ARC size stays at its minimum value near just 200MB. Not sure if this plays significant role in the performance issue, but perhaps s

tuning zfs for large file reads

2010-07-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
Every once in a while I need to go through some rather large netflow/argus logs (each file about 1G, total of about 90 files) stored on a zfs array and I am finding reading from the file is at best about 50MB/s and often much worse. The individual underlying disks should be able to read much fa