I would appreciate if somebody can clarify a few points. I am doing some random WRITES (100% writes, 100% random) testing and observe that ARC grows way beyond the "hard" limit during the test. The hard limit is set 512 MB via /etc/system and I see the size going up to 1 GB - how come is it happening?
mdb's ::memstat reports 1.5 GB used - does this include ARC as well or is it separate? I see on the backed only reads (205 MB/s) and almost no writes (1.1 MB/s) - any ides what is being read? --- BEFORE TEST # ~/bin/arc_summary.pl System Memory: Physical RAM: 12270 MB Free Memory : 7108 MB LotsFree: 191 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): set zfs:zfs_prefetch_disable = 1 set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000 set zfs:zfs_arc_min = 0x10000000 ARC Size: Current Size: 136 MB (arcsize) Target Size (Adaptive): 512 MB (c) Min Size (Hard Limit): 256 MB (zfs_arc_min) Max Size (Hard Limit): 512 MB (zfs_arc_max) ... > ::memstat Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 800895 3128 25% ZFS File Data 394450 1540 13% Anon 106813 417 3% Exec and libs 4178 16 0% Page cache 14333 55 0% Free (cachelist) 22996 89 1% Free (freelist) 1797511 7021 57% Total 3141176 12270 Physical 3141175 12270 --- DURING THE TEST # ~/bin/arc_summary.pl System Memory: Physical RAM: 12270 MB Free Memory : 6687 MB LotsFree: 191 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): set zfs:zfs_prefetch_disable = 1 set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000 set zfs:zfs_arc_min = 0x10000000 ARC Size: Current Size: 1336 MB (arcsize) Target Size (Adaptive): 512 MB (c) Min Size (Hard Limit): 256 MB (zfs_arc_min) Max Size (Hard Limit): 512 MB (zfs_arc_max) ARC Size Breakdown: Most Recently Used Cache Size: 87% 446 MB (p) Most Frequently Used Cache Size: 12% 65 MB (c-p) ARC Efficency: Cache Access Total: 51681761 Cache Hit Ratio: 52% 27056475 [Defined State for buffer] Cache Miss Ratio: 47% 24625286 [Undefined State for Buffer] REAL Hit Ratio: 52% 27056475 [MRU/MFU Hits Only] Data Demand Efficiency: 35% Data Prefetch Efficiency: DISABLED (zfs_prefetch_disable) CACHE HITS BY CACHE LIST: Anon: --% Counter Rolled. Most Recently Used: 13% 3627289 (mru) [ Return Customer ] Most Frequently Used: 86% 23429186 (mfu) [ Frequent Customer ] Most Recently Used Ghost: 17% 4657584 (mru_ghost) [ Return Customer Evicted, Now Back ] Most Frequently Used Ghost: 32% 8712009 (mfu_ghost) [ Frequent Customer Evicted, Now Back ] CACHE HITS BY DATA TYPE: Demand Data: 30% 8308866 Prefetch Data: 0% 0 Demand Metadata: 69% 18747609 Prefetch Metadata: 0% 0 CACHE MISSES BY DATA TYPE: Demand Data: 61% 15113029 Prefetch Data: 0% 0 Demand Metadata: 38% 9511898 Prefetch Metadata: 0% 359 --------------------------------------------- -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss