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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:30:04 +0100
From:      Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micka=EBl_Can=E9vet?= <canevet@embl.fr>
Subject:   Re: kmem_map too small with ZFS and 8.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikQiTi25TR6uDD2umRZQrOL8YZzEC960oWf4wax@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110304100517.GA23249@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <1299232133.18671.3.camel@pc286.embl.fr> <20110304100517.GA23249@icarus.home.lan>

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> # Disable ZFS prefetching
> # http://southbrain.com/south/2008/04/the-nightmare-comes-slowly-zfs.html
> # Increases overall speed of ZFS, but when disk flushing/writes occur,
> # system is less responsive (due to extreme disk I/O).
> # NOTE: Systems with 8GB of RAM or more have prefetch enabled by
> # default.
> vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1"
>
>
> I wonder if this is still the case since the website you referring to was
from 2008 and I guess a lot has changed since then.
For example I get horrible performance with prefech disabled. (running on 4
disk striped mirror)



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