[zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-12 Thread Gary Mills
We're running a Cyrus IMAP server on a T2000 under Solaris 10 with about 1 TB of mailboxes on ZFS filesystems. Recently, when under load, we've had incidents where IMAP operations became very slow. The general symptoms are that the number of imapd, pop3d, and lmtpd processes increases, the CPU

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:49:49AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: Gary Mills wrote: We're running a Cyrus IMAP server on a T2000 under Solaris 10 with about 1 TB of mailboxes on ZFS filesystems. Recently, when under load, we've had incidents where IMAP operations became very slow. The general

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:23:03PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: These disks are pretty slow. JBOD? They are not 100% busy, which means that either the cached data is providing enough response to the apps, or the apps are not capable of producing enough load -- which means the bottleneck may

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro SAS/SATA controllers?

2009-04-12 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Miles Nordin car...@ivy.net wrote: nl Supermicro have several LSI controllers. AOC-USASLP-L8i with nl the LSI 1068E That's what I'm using. It uses the proprietary mpt driver. nl and AOC-USASLP-H8iR with the LSI 1078. I'm not using this. nl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:01:57PM -0400, Ellis, Mike wrote: Is the netapp iscsi-lun forcing a dull sync as a part of zfs's 5-second synx/flush type of thing? (Not needed tince the netapp guarantees the write once it acks it) I've asked that of our Netapp guy, but so far I haven't heard from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-12 Thread Sanjeev
Gary, How full is the pool ? -- Sanjeev On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:39:03AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: We're running a Cyrus IMAP server on a T2000 under Solaris 10 with about 1 TB of mailboxes on ZFS filesystems. Recently, when under load, we've had incidents where IMAP operations became very