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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:42:32 +0200
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS - Abyssal slow on copying
Message-ID:  <20161004124232.6d655b61@fabiankeil.de>
In-Reply-To: <20161002212504.2d782002.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <20161002212504.2d782002.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Running 12-CURRENT (FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #32 r306579: Sun Oct  2 09:34:50 CEST 2016 ), I
> have a NanoBSD setup which creates an image for a router device.
> 
> The problem I face is related to ZFS. The system has a system's SSD (Samsung 850 Pro,
> 256GB) which has an UFS filesystem. Aditionally, I have also a backup and a data HDD,
> both WD, one 3 TB WD RED Pro, on 4 TB WD RED (the backup device). Both the sources for
> the NanoBSD and the object tree as well as the NANO_WORLDDIR are residing on the 3 TB
> data drive. 
> 
> The box itself has 8 GB RAM. When it comes to create the memory disk, which is ~ 1,3 GB
> in size, the NanoBSD script starts creating the memory disk and then installing world
> into this memory disk. And this part is a kind of abyssal in terms of the speed.

Can you reproduce the issue if you replace the memory disk with
a zvol or tmpfs?

While I agree that depulication could be the cause of the problem,
it probably wouldn't hurt to rule out a memory-disk related issue
before recreating the pool.

Fabian

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