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Subject: Re: ZFS performance help sought
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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On 01/21/16 14:51, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> Hi all.

<snip>

> Running FreeBSD, a zfs send/receive from one pool to another makes my system
> almost unusably slow and even begins to dig me into swap a little. As a test
> a little while back, I capped the ARC at half RAM, but that didn't matter a
> bit. I started looking into scheduler tweaking when I decided to take the
> path of least resistance and just install Linux instead. ZFS on Linux on
> literally the same hardware, dealing with the same pools, handles this same
> disk I/O without a hiccough.

<snip>

Do you use gzip compression in your pool?

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