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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2007 01:14:55 +0200
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E5le?= Kristoffersen <staalebk@ifi.uio.no>
To:        Huang wen hui <huang@gddsn.org.cn>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs generate a lot of IO ?
Message-ID:  <20070528231455.GB14746@eschew.pusen.org>
In-Reply-To: <46595D43.2090102@gddsn.org.cn>
References:  <46595D43.2090102@gddsn.org.cn>

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On 2007-05-27 at 10:28, Huang wen hui wrote:
> hi,
> I install CURRENT with zfs root fs on my notebook(T60P). GENERIC
> configuration
> without INVARIANTS and WITNESS.
> I run a program to test. This program basically read a few small files
> and calcuate and output a small file.
> On FreeBSD6.2, iostat show that It generate a few io operation.
> But on zfs, generate a lot:

<snip>

This could be the same thing Nick Gustas and I have been seeing. Try
setting vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" in loader.conf, this made things
"normal" for me.

-- 
Ståle Kristoffersen
staalebk@ifi.uio.no



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