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Interupts and Context Switches with ZFS with LUKS

Why care?

Interupts and Context switches represent overhead and ineffeciency (in general).

The Setup

The Same 15 4TB drives in a raidz3 with a hotspare (16 drives total).

Testing was just a scrub (no fresh boot). Switched between CFQ and NOOP a couple of times.

Results

The picture generally speaks for itself, but in general I noticed a doubling of the context switches and adding 1 to the load level.

I also about a 20% increase in Interupts.

The results

Conclusion

Use NOOP.

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