Re: [zfs-discuss] Very bad ZFS write performance. Ok Read.

2011-02-15 Thread ian W
Thanks.. given this box runs 18 hours a day and is idle for maybe 17.5 hrs of that, I'd rather have the best power management I can... I would have loved to have upgraded to a i3 or even SB but the solaris 11 express support for both is marginal. (h55 chipset issues, no sandybridge support at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very bad ZFS write performance. Ok Read.

2011-02-14 Thread ian W
Thanks for the responses.. I found the issue. It was due to power management, and a probably bug with event driven power management states, changing cpupm enable to cpupm enable poll-mode in /etc/power.conf fixed the issue for me. back up to 110MB/sec+ now.. -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very bad ZFS write performance. Ok Read.

2011-02-14 Thread ian W
Hello my power.conf is as follows; any recommendations for improvement? device-dependency-property removable-media /dev/fb autopm enable autoS3 enable cpu-threshold 1s # Auto-Shutdown Idle(min) Start/Finish(hh:mm) Behavior autoshutdown 30 0:00 0:00 noshutdown S3-support enable

[zfs-discuss] Very bad ZFS write performance. Ok Read.

2011-02-10 Thread ian W
Hi All. Hope you can still help here. Solaris 11 Express. x86 platform E6600 with 6GB of RAM I have a fairly new S11E box Im using as a file server. 3x1.5TB HDD's in a raidz pool. When I first set it up I was getting 110MB/sec writes across gigabit network via SMB shares. I noticed recently