Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-09 Thread Markus Kovero
on. Yours Markus Kovero -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Donald Stahl Sent: 9. kesäkuuta 2011 6:27 To: Ding Honghui Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Stahl
> There is snapshot of metaslab layout, the last 51 metaslabs have 64G free > space. After we added all the disks to our system we had lots of free metaslabs- but that didn't seem to matter. I don't know if perhaps the system was attempting to balance the writes across more of our devices but whate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
On 06/09/2011 10:14 AM, Ding Honghui wrote: On 06/09/2011 12:23 AM, Donald Stahl wrote: Another (less satisfying) workaround is to increase the amount of free space in the pool, either by reducing usage or adding more storage. Observed behavior is that allocation is fast until usage crosses a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
On 06/09/2011 12:23 AM, Donald Stahl wrote: Another (less satisfying) workaround is to increase the amount of free space in the pool, either by reducing usage or adding more storage. Observed behavior is that allocation is fast until usage crosses a threshhold, then performance hits a wall. We

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Stahl
> Another (less satisfying) workaround is to increase the amount of free space > in the pool, either by reducing usage or adding more storage. Observed > behavior is that allocation is fast until usage crosses a threshhold, then > performance hits a wall. We actually tried this solution. We were at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 06/08/11 01:05, Tomas Ögren wrote: And if pool usage is>90%, then there's another problem (change of finding free space algorithm). Another (less satisfying) workaround is to increase the amount of free space in the pool, either by reducing usage or adding more storage. Observed behavior i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Stahl
> In Solaris 10u8: > root@nas-hz-01:~# uname -a > SunOS nas-hz-01 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc > root@nas-hz-01:~# echo "metaslab_min_alloc_size/K" | mdb -kw > mdb: failed to dereference symbol: unknown symbol name Fair enough. I don't have anything older than b147 at this point so I was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
On 06/08/2011 09:15 PM, Donald Stahl wrote: "metaslab_min_alloc_size" is not in use when block allocator isDynamic block allocator[1]. So it is not tunable parameter in my case. May I ask where it says this is not a tunable in that case? I've read through the code and I don't see what you are ta

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
On 06/08/2011 04:05 PM, Tomas Ögren wrote: On 08 June, 2011 - Donald Stahl sent me these 0,6K bytes: One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in sequence write. Command: date;dd if=/dev/zero of=block bs=1024*128 count=1;date

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
Ding Honghui Sent: 8. kesäkuuta 2011 6:07 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem Hi, I got a wired write performance and need your help. One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in seq

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Ding Honghui
On 06/08/2011 12:12 PM, Donald Stahl wrote: One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in sequence write. Command: date;dd if=/dev/zero of=block bs=1024*128 count=1;date See this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Markus Kovero
g] On Behalf Of Ding Honghui Sent: 8. kesäkuuta 2011 6:07 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem Hi, I got a wired write performance and need your help. One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 June, 2011 - Donald Stahl sent me these 0,6K bytes: > >> One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. > >> The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in sequence > >> write. > >> > >> Command: > >> date;dd if=/dev/zero of=block bs=1024*128 count=1;date > > See this thre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-07 Thread Donald Stahl
>> One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. >> The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in sequence >> write. >> >> Command: >> date;dd if=/dev/zero of=block bs=1024*128 count=1;date See this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=139317&tstart=45

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-07 Thread Ding Honghui
And one comment: When we do write operation(by command dd), heavy read operation increased from zero to 3M for each disk, and the write bandwidth is poor. The disk io %b increase from 0 to about 60. I don't understand why this happened. capacity o

[zfs-discuss] Wired write performance problem

2011-06-07 Thread Ding Honghui
Hi, I got a wired write performance and need your help. One day, the write performance of zfs degrade. The write performance decrease from 60MB/s to about 6MB/s in sequence write. Command: date;dd if=/dev/zero of=block bs=1024*128 count=1;date The hardware configuration is 1 Dell MD3000 an