Understanding the ZFS tuning

ZFS is all about performance (many levels of caching, pre-fetch, …) and

memory consumption :-)

Here are my last links about ZFS

[internals](http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv- gate/usr/src/cmd/mdb/common/modules/zfs/zfs.c#333), it’s worth a read if you plan to use ZFS on large productions :

• The slides of Adam Leventhal’s talk for the OpenSolaris Storage Summit : ZFS, Cache, and Flash

• c0t0d0s0.org : a very good explanation of the ARC cache : most recently used pages, most frequently used pages and their ghosts lists Some insight into the read cache of ZFS - or: The ARC and the writing side

• The arc_summary.pl tool is very useful for analysis, made by Ben Rockwood with the kstat counters.

• Also by Ben Rockwood : ZFS in the Trenches is an overview of a real-life-production usage of ZFS : interesting counters and tuning hints at the different levels (monitoring, ARC, ZIL, Physical I/O, backup & replication), useful tools, and experience sharing. A must-read !

• And before anything, always refer to the ZFS Best Practices Guide of solarisinternals.com

If you have some interesting links about ZFS too, share them with us in the comments !

Thomas