On 6/14/2010 12:10 PM, Neil Perrin wrote:
On 06/14/10 12:29, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
It is good to keep in mind that only small writes go to the dedicated
slog. Large writes to to main store. A succession of that many small
writes (to fill RAM/2) is highly unlikely. Also, that the zil is not
read back unless the system is improperly shut down.
I thought all sync writes, meaning everything NFS and iSCSI, went
into the slog - IIRC the docs says so.
Check a month or two back in the archives for a post by Matt Ahrens.
It seems that larger writes (>32k?) are written directly to main
store. This is probably a change from the original zfs design.
Bob
If there's a slog then the data, regardless of size, gets written to
the slog.
If there's no slog and if the data size is greater than
zfs_immediate_write_sz/zvol_immediate_write_sz
(both default to 32K) then the data is written as a block into the
pool and the block pointer
written into the log record. This is the WR_INDIRECT write type.
So Matt and Roy are both correct.
But wait, there's more complexity!:
If logbias=throughput is set we always use WR_INDIRECT.
If we just wrote more than 1MB for a single zil commit and there's
more than 2MB waiting
then we start using the main pool.
Clear as mud? This is likely to change again...
Neil.
How do I monitor the amount of live (i.e. non-committed) data in the
slog? I'd like to spend some time with my setup, seeing exactly how
much I tend to use.
I'd suspect that very few use cases call for more than a couple (2-4) GB
of slog...
I'm trying to get hard numbers as I'm working on building a
DRAM/battery/flash slog device in one of my friend's electronics
prototyping shops. It would be really nice if I could solve 99% of the
need with 1 or 2 2GB SODIMMs and the chips from a cheap 4GB USB thumb
drive...
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Erik Trimble
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