Bad ZFS performance on the desktop

[Erik Lauritsen]

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:19:18 +0000
> Erik Lauritsen <eriklauritsen at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have monitored ZFS using 'top' and can see that it never eats
>> more than half of my memory, so it's not because I'm out of
>> memory.
> 
> Is there any sign of swap activity ? This sounds a lot like swap
> thrashing.

There is no swap activity. I have 16 GB in the box and the ARC is
set to 10GB, but it never reaches that.

Also top shows that the swap is free all the time:

Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

>> I'm thinking about getting a couple of SSDs, but then again I use
>> backup meticulously and perhaps ZFS on a single drive or just UFS
>> is better for the desktop?
> 
> I'm using ZFS on a single SSD for boot (with everything important
> mounted from a NAS running a bunch of mirrors), it's fast but I did have to
> set vfs.zfs.arc_max in /boot/loader.conf (to 2GB on my 8GB machine) in
> order to stop browsers thrashing swap.
> --
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
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