[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS pool slow as molasses

[Paul Johnston]

  On 10/ 5/10 09:01 PM, Julian Wiesener wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as far as i see (device names in iostat) you're using the PATA 
> interface to the SATA drives. Please look if you have an "native AHCI" 
> switch in the BIOS and turn it on, the SATA drivers are way better 
> implementet.
>
>
> Regards,
> Julian
>
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Er what sort of name would you expect to see for a sata device?

I have
paulj at openindiana:~/Downloads$ pfexec iostat -cxnz
      cpu
  us sy wt id
   2  1  0 97
                     extended device statistics
     r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
     2.5    9.6  187.9  120.4  0.1  0.1    5.1    4.2   1   4 c4d0


:-)

Regards Paul