On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Craig Boston wrote:
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> 
> I just so happen to be rebuilding the zfs pool on that server this
> morning in order to add more swap, so your wish(1tcl) is my rcmd(3).

You, sir, are a total geek.

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or a curse.

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> Same machine, on a UFS filesystem (single disk, since zfs was doing the
> RAID), with the cache tuning parameters reset back to defaults:
> 
> First 'git status' after a reboot:
> git status  2.23s user 2.23s system 17% cpu 24.987 total
> 
> Second:
> git status  1.81s user 1.34s system 98% cpu 3.188 total
> 
> Third:
> git status  1.76s user 1.45s system 98% cpu 3.252 total
> 
> So I definitely think the problem is just that with its increased
> overhead, ZFS simply can't keep all the metadata in the cache with the
> available memory.

Very interesting. And thanks. The whole "ZFS is great" internet meme seems 
to be partly due to not a lot of people having used or compared it in real 
life. I'm sure it's wonderful for some things, but it clearly does have a 
lot of downsides too. 

			Linus
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