[zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All, We are currently doing a zfs send/recv with mbuffer to send incremental changes across and it seems to be running quite slowly, with zfs receive the apparent bottle neck. The process itself seems to be using almost 100% of a single CPU in sys time. Wondering if anyone has any ideas if

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: genunix`list_next    5822   3.7% unix`mach_cpu_idle 150261  96.1% Rather idle. Top shows:    PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND  22945 root 

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/05/11 10:47, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: zfs`lzjb_decompress10 0.0% unix`page_nextn31 0.0% genunix`fsflush_do_pages 37 0.0% zfs`dbuf_free_range

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi Bob, On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: genunix`list_next ** 5822 3.7% unix`mach_cpu_idle** 150261 96.1% Rather

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: Anything else you suggest I'd check for faults? (Though I'm sort of doubting it is an issue, I'm happy to be thorough) Try running fmdump -ef and see if new low-level fault events are comming in during the zfs receive. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi Bob, On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Lachlan Mulcahy wrote: Anything else you suggest I'd check for faults? (Though I'm sort of doubting it is an issue, I'm happy to be thorough) Try running fmdump -ef

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs receive slowness - lots of systime spent in genunix`list_next ?

2011-12-05 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Hi All, Just a follow up - it seems like whatever it was doing it eventually got done with and the speed picked back up again. The send/recv finally finished -- I guess I could do with a little patience :) Lachlan On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Lachlan Mulcahy lmulc...@marinsoftware.com