Hello Chris,

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 5:42:32 AM, you wrote:

CS> I wrote:
CS> |  I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am
CS> | seeing a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous
CS> | sequential reads increases.

CS>  To update zfs-discuss on this: after more investigation, this seems
CS> to be due to file-level prefetching. Turning file-level prefetching
CS> off (following the directions of the ZFS Evil Tuning Guide) returns
CS> NFS server performance to full network bandwidth when there are lots
CS> of simultaneous sequential reads. Unfortunately it significantly
CS> reduces the performance of a single sequential read (when the server is
CS> otherwise idle).


Have you tried to disable vdev caching and leave file level
prefetching?


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Best regards,
 Robert Milkowski                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                                       http://milek.blogspot.com

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