Re: ZFS, compression, system load, pauses (livelocks?)

2009-12-15 Thread Wiktor Niesiobedzki
2009/12/15 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: The context of this post is file servers running FreeBSD 8 and ZFS with compressed file systems on low-end hardware, or actually high-end hardware on VMWare ESX 3.5 and 4, which kind of makes it low-end as far as storage is concerned. The servers are

Re: ZFS, compression, system load, pauses (livelocks?)

2009-12-15 Thread Wiktor Niesiobedzki
2009/12/15 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: I have tried before reducing priority of ZFS taskqueues but only to PRIBIO, not below it - not much effect wrt pauses. I was testing with getting the thread as low priority as PUSER (with original pjd@ patch) and it was actually performing better than

Re: fixes for ipfw and pf lock ordering issues

2004-09-29 Thread Wiktor Niesiobedzki
minutes. After that I just left the system for it own, while there was some activity on network (and particularly on rules with uid matching). Till today I was quite happy with that. If there is anything I can debug more, to help you solve the problem, please ask. Cheers, Wiktor Niesiobedzki PS