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You may remember these articles I posted a while ago in the “howtos” category on my website. I had two of them on my ZFS-on-root setup, one on FreeBSD 8.2 for a local machine and one for a remotely managed server on FreeBSD 9.2.

The most important one was the latter as I moved all my services on dedicated servers hosted in datacentres (all managed by Online¹).

My most heavily used machine at Online is getting old now by today’s standards and, to stay within the scope of the aforementioned articles, lacking the cryptographic hardware extensions in its CPU (an Intel Xeon L3426 — as you can see, old :)).

While I was just running my web & mail site out of it, I do not really need blazing fast disks (or I’d have taken SSD) but still, now that I’m sharing stuff with the Transmission P2P client and building my own set of FreeBSD packages for the host and its jails with Poudriere, the bandwidth limitation is taking its toll (35 MB/s without the

AES-NI instructions vs 150 MB/s).

I may also running out of disks space (ahem), the disks are 90% filled…

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