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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:23:54 +0100
From:      Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS - abysmal performance with samba since upgrade to 8.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=qM8Jym1SpVSoYKC%2B1mqjmuYudVhT5m%2BhXQgJ7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110224075517.GA18146@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <4D660909.6090202@my.gd> <20110224075517.GA18146@icarus.home.lan>

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

>
> =A0# Set TXG write limit to a lower threshold. =A0This helps "level out"
> =A0# the throughput rate (see "zpool iostat"). =A0A value of 256MB works =
well
> =A0# for systems with 4GB of RAM, while 1GB works well for us w/ 8GB on
> =A0# disks which have 64MB cache.
> =A0vfs.zfs.txg.write_limit_override=3D1073741824
>
>

Sorry if you have said this before, but could you elaborate a bit
about this number? For instance, how much does the cache on the disk
has to say.
In my case: 3x1.5TB raidz with WD15EADS-00R6B0 which has 32MB cache
and 12GB memory. What would you recommend and why.

--=20
chs,



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