[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 09:15 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>>> I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
>>
>> Now that is interesting...
>
> there are two factors that you may want to look at:
>
>   1) block size.  files default to a 128K allocation block size, while
> zvols default to 8K.
>
>   2) check the "sync" property; the zvol may be generating synchronous
> writes while I/O to the file isn't.
>

Default setting on OI_147 is 'standard' and not 'always'.

I think I better bug the powers that be for that failover server for 
testing.