On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:06:38 +0000 krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote about Re: ZFS - poor performance with "large" directories: K> consumer SSDs are cheap enough now not to bother with usb drives I would K> imagine. Sure. I was just suggesting a USB drive as a quick way to check if this might help at all. Most people have USB drives lying around, and they can simply be plugged into any computer. A SSD (cheap or not) more likely needs to be bought first, and the server box might need to be opened to have it installed. cu Gerrit
Hi again, I have conducted a few other experiments and concluded that ZFS is NOT the culprit here and my suspicions now go to Samba instead which seems to behave really badly under these conditions... Thanks for all the ZFS help though, much appreciated! Cheers, Albert On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Gerrit K?hn <gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de> wrote:> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:06:38 +0000 krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote about Re: > ZFS - poor performance with "large" directories: > > K> consumer SSDs are cheap enough now not to bother with usb drives I would > K> imagine. > > Sure. I was just suggesting a USB drive as a quick way to check if this > might help at all. Most people have USB drives lying around, and they can > simply be plugged into any computer. A SSD (cheap or not) more likely > needs to be bought first, and the server box might need to be opened to > have it installed. > > > cu > Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
true, but in my experience usb pen drives are variable in terms of performance across different sticks and different areas of the same stick. This can complicate things a little, and is often not worth the effort. You obviously run the ssd over usb though, and I still do on one server I run as I haven't been able to sort the down time yet. On 25 November 2015 at 12:16, Gerrit K?hn <gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de> wrote:> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:06:38 +0000 krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote about Re: > ZFS - poor performance with "large" directories: > > K> consumer SSDs are cheap enough now not to bother with usb drives I would > K> imagine. > > Sure. I was just suggesting a USB drive as a quick way to check if this > might help at all. Most people have USB drives lying around, and they can > simply be plugged into any computer. A SSD (cheap or not) more likely > needs to be bought first, and the server box might need to be opened to > have it installed. > > > cu > Gerrit >