Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:11:42 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and a spare SSD: ZIL or L2ARC?
Message-ID:  <20190213171142.33b7c430c5ec256b1cbafa42@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <c296b7b3-8418-3966-66ed-502d25a848dd@netfence.it>
References:  <c296b7b3-8418-3966-66ed-502d25a848dd@netfence.it>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:02:51 +0100
Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

> Now I've just got hold of a spare SSD and, although the box performance 
> is adequate, I'd like to see if it can boost it.
> Should I configure it as L2ARC? ZIL? Both?

	In my experience L2ARC tends to run full and ZIL uses almost none
of the space allocated. But then my workload is read heavy - for a write
heavy workload ZIL is probably more beneficial.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20190213171142.33b7c430c5ec256b1cbafa42>