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I just installed build 41 of Nevada on a SunBlade 1500 with 2GB of ram. I wanted to check out zfs since the delay of S10U2 I really could not wait any longer :) I installed it on my system and created a zpool out of an approximately 40GB disk slice. I then wanted to build a version of thunderbird that contains a local patch that we like. So I download the source tar ball. I try to untar it on the

...excited about it!), so naturally I''m looking forward to some great performance - but it appears I''m going to need some help finding all of it. I was having even lower numbers with filebench, so I decided to dial back to a really simple app for testing - bonnie. The system is an nevada_41 EM64T 3ghz xeon. 1GB ram, with 8x seagate sata II 300GB disks, Supermicro SAT2-MV8 8 port sata controller, running at/on a 133Mhz 64pci-x bus. The bottle neck here, by my thinkng, should be the disks themselves. It''s not the disk interfaces (''300MB''), the disk bus (300MB...