[rtg] rated, new version of rtgpoll

[Matt Simerson]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Mark Boolootian wrote:

>> I have several backup servers with 24 1TB disks running ZFS with  
>> gzip-6
>> compression. I get about 2x compression on backup data, which I'd  
>> guess is
>> more compressible than mysql tables.
>
> Have you run any I/O benchmarks against these guys?

Yes, quite a few. They are slow, even in rip roaring fast hardware.  
And ZFS is an unstable memory hog.

I say this is a fellow with 16GB of RAM in each box, dedicated to  
doing nothing but archiving data collected via the network. It's  
merely rsync processes from hosts to disk for backups.

Matt