Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely slow zpool scrub performance

2011-05-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Donald Stahl Running a zpool scrub on our production pool is showing a scrub rate of about 400K/s. (When this pool was first set up we saw rates in the MB/s range during a scrub). Wait

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely slow zpool scrub performance

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 05/14/11 01:08 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Donald Stahl Running a zpool scrub on our production pool is showing a scrub rate of about 400K/s. (When this pool was first set up we saw rates

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely slow zpool scrub performance

2011-05-14 Thread Richard Elling
On May 13, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Donald Stahl d...@blacksun.org wrote: Running a zpool scrub on our production pool is showing a scrub rate of about 400K/s. (When this pool was first set up we saw rates in the MB/s range during a scrub). The scrub I/O has lower priority than other I/O. In

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely slow zpool scrub performance

2011-05-14 Thread Donald Stahl
The scrub I/O has lower priority than other I/O. In later ZFS releases, scrub I/O is also throttled. When the throttle kicks in, the scrub can drop to 5-10 IOPS. This shouldn't be much of an issue, scrubs do not need to be, and are not intended to be, run very often -- perhaps once a quarter

Re: [zfs-discuss] primarycache=metadata seems to force behaviour of secondarycache=metadata

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Forgeron
On May 9, 2010 at 5:29PM, Richard Elling wrote: On May 9, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Chris Forgeron wrote: [..] Q1 - Doesn't this behavior mean that the L2ARC can never get data objects if the ARC doesn't hold them? Yes. Is setting primary to metadata and secondary to all an impossible request?