Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:11:14
Message-Id: 523C6585.40400@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS by Grant
1 Am 19.09.2013 06:47, schrieb Grant:
2 >>>> turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly.
3 >>>> Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon.
4 >>> You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about the ARC.
5 >> which does prefetching. So yes.
6 > I'm taking notes on this so I want to clarify, when using ZFS,
7 > readahead in the kernel should be disabled by using blockdev to set it
8 > to 8?
9 >
10 > - Grant
11 >
12 > .
13 >
14 you can't turn it off (afaik) but 8 is a good value - because it is just
15 a 4k block.