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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E5le?= Kristoffersen <staalebk@ifi.uio.no>
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On 2007-05-14 at 10:42, Nick Gustas wrote:
> I see the same behavior that Ståle is seeing, I can "fix" it by setting 
> vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" in loader.conf.  I'm assuming something in 
> the prefetch code isn't quite right?

Ah, this _greatly_ improved the usability of my fileserver! Thanks for the
tip :)

> I believe I saw similar behavior in 
> solaris 10 when playing with ZFS a few weeks ago, but I need to revisit 
> that machine or install opensolaris on this one before I can be sure.

Did you get around to checking this out?

-- 
Ståle Kristoffersen
staalebk@ifi.uio.no