Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-09-04 Thread Roch
Scott Lawson writes: > Also you may wish to look at the output of 'iostat -xnce 1' as well. > > You can post those to the list if you have a specific problem. > > You want to be looking for error counts increasing and specifically 'asvc_t' > for the service times on the disks. I higher num

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Gao
Running "iostat -nxce 1", I saw write sizes alternate between two raidz groups in the same pool. At one time, drives on cotroller 1 have larger writes (3-10 times) than ones on controller2: extended device statistics errors --- r/sw/s

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
Maybe you can run a Dtrace probe using Chime? http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/chime Initial Traces -> Device IO -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Scott Lawson
Also you may wish to look at the output of 'iostat -xnce 1' as well. You can post those to the list if you have a specific problem. You want to be looking for error counts increasing and specifically 'asvc_t' for the service times on the disks. I higher number for asvc_t may help to isolate poo

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Scott Meilicke
You can try: zpool iostat pool_name -v 1 This will show you IO on each vdev at one second intervals. Perhaps you will see different IO behavior on any suspect drive. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-

[zfs-discuss] How to find poor performing disks

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I'd appreciate if anyone can point me how to identify poor performing disks that might have dragged down performance of the pool. Also the system logged following error about one of the drives. Does it show the disk was having problem? Aug 17 13:45:56 zfs1.domain.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.