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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:33:04 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com>, freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS server has gone crazy slow
Message-ID:  <68328a40-0e3d-f9cf-510b-9cbfd7cb8acd@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <2182C27C-A5D3-41BF-9CE9-7C6883E43074@distal.com>

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12.04.2020 0:36, Chris Ross wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE server that is my router, using a ZFS mirror (of two GPT disks) as it’s disk.  It’s many years old, and has only been misbehaving like this for a day or so.  I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong.
> 
> I confirmed that internet connectivity isn’t the problem, and a reboot didn’t fix it.  (The reboot took 10-15 minutes to finish going multi-user, starting daemons, due to the underlying problem described below.)
> 
> Truss’ing a very basic command (date), I can see that close() and exit() calls are taking 1-2 seconds.  All of the files being opened are on ZFS, but I don’t know if that’s for sure related.  Similarly, using shell builtin “echo foo” always is immediate, but “/bin/echo” sometimes works quickly, but sometimes the close() on /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints takes 3-5 seconds.
> 
> I _think_ this is a filesystem problem.  It’s very hard to diagnose because logging in, and doing anything, takes many seconds per command.  zpool status shows my mirror as online, so I’m not sure where I should check.
> 
> I’d appreciate any help!  Thanks much…

First of all you should check if any of your ZFS pools is low on space.



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