On 7 dec 2009, at 18.40, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Richard Bruce wrote: > >> I started copying over all the data from my existing workstation. When >> copying files (mostly multi-gigabyte DV video files), network throughput >> drops to zero for ~1/2 second every 8-15 seconds. This throughput drop >> corresponds to drive activity on the Opensolaris box. The ZFS pool drives >> show no activity except every 8-15 seconds. As best as I can guess, the >> Opensolaris box is caching traffic and batching it to disk every so often. >> I guess I didn't expect disk writes to interrupt network traffic. Is this >> correct? > > This is expected behavior. From what has been posted here, these are the > current buffering rules:
Is it really? Shouldn't it start on the next txg and while the previous txg commits, and just continue writing? /ragge _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
