From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 20:29:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E70F106567A for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay07.ispgateway.de (smtprelay07.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66828FC1D for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:29:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from [217.50.139.218] (helo=localhost) by smtprelay07.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K5RVn-0002K5-9S; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:29:11 +0200 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:28:52 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: "Christian Walther" Message-ID: <20080608222852.5810cd38@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0806081210r6fec5a14y6473a26ba28a91f3@mail.gmail.com> References: <1a5a68400806080604ped08ce8p120fc21107e7de81@mail.gmail.com> <20080608162456.1c4949bc@fabiankeil.de> <14989d6e0806081210r6fec5a14y6473a26ba28a91f3@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2008-08-18.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/C_iSRS1fqtsz5=cceS6DvtC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Df-Sender: 775067 Cc: Anders =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4ggstr=F6m?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:29:14 -0000 --Sig_/C_iSRS1fqtsz5=cceS6DvtC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Christian Walther" wrote: > 2008/6/8 Fabian Keil : > > "Anders H=E4ggstr=F6m" wrote: > > > [...] > > Just in case you assume that ZFS on OpenSolaris 2008.05 > > would be superior to ZFS on FreeBSD, this hasn't been my > > experience. > > > > On a system with an Athlon 1700+ and only 512 MB of RAM, > > receiving snapshots on OpenSolaris renders the GUI pretty > > much useless. > > > > On FreeBSD ZFS operations can cause delays as well, but it's > > significantly better than on OpenSolaris, even though FreeBSD's > > ZFS pool lies on a geli-encrypted gmirror while OpenSolaris uses > > the disk directly. > > > This hasn't anything to do with ZFS but on the different configuration > of the clockrate. FreeBSD uses 1000 ticks, while it's 500 on Solaris. With OpenSolaris 2008.05 the GUI becomes unresponsive for multiple-seconds on my system, and it's not clear to me how the clock rate difference would explain that. Fabian --Sig_/C_iSRS1fqtsz5=cceS6DvtC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhMQQQACgkQBYqIVf93VJ2TWACfUu7DnU+m7sYTfKf55BMdaDZj rIgAoISapsLMh1kvDLCGo/6XZ0m8eyIN =GeCW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/C_iSRS1fqtsz5=cceS6DvtC--