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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:54:14 -0600 (CST)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Urmas Lett <urmas.lett@eenet.ee>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reading from ZFS mirror 2x slower than expected?
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1001281350210.17824@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B619485.8080106@eenet.ee>
References:  <4B619485.8080106@eenet.ee>

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Urmas Lett wrote:

> While reading from simple zfs mirror 'dd if=zfs.test of=/dev/null bs=512k' 
> systat -vm shows individual disks only 50% busy:

How big is the file 'zfs.test'?  How was it created?  If it was 
created from /dev/zero then its content is bogus.  You need to test 
with non-zero data.

It may be that zfs's prefetch is not working adequately.  With perfect 
prefetch, the read rate should be doubled.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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