On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Claus Guttesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm aware of that, but the only way the problem shows up is when a > windows machine performs an installation or a windows update (and has > alot of updates in the pipeline). When traffic (i/o) is low to > moderate it justs goes along without any issues. And if the same > virtual windows-installation is on an iscsi-partition (mounted by the > vmware-server) I can't reproduce the problem. So if disabling the zil > did make a difference I would install a dedicated zil-ssd-device. And > if that did alleviate my problem the issue could be related to windows > performing alot of small reads and writes. Hence why I wanted to > disable the zil. > What did someone say about shooting yourself on the foot? http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Disabling_the_ZIL_.28Don.27t.29 I don't think you can even disable it on newer versions of ZFS so it may be something of a moot point. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
