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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:29:26 +0300
From:      Ilya A. Arkhipov <rum1cro@yandex.ru>
To:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disable zfs prefetch by default
Message-ID:  <614751424438966@web18h.yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <66c5011b.0fcc09f9@fabiankeil.de>
References:  <54E71E20.8080303@yandex.ru> <66c5011b.0fcc09f9@fabiankeil.de>

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20.02.2015, 15:52, "Fabian Keil" <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>:
> "Ilya A. Arkhipov" <rum1cro@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> šWe have zfs prefetch enabled by default with > 4GB, but I didn't seen
>> šany case for using it, and all tuning guide saying to disable it.
>
> Which tuning guides are you referring to?
This one https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide

>> šMaybe we disable zfs prefetch by default ? Or could you please provide
>> šwhy it needed.
>
> Whether or not prefetching is useful depends on the workload
> and the setup.
>
> If you doubt that the prefetch default is useful for your workload
> (for example because your systems mainly do small "random" reads
> from "random" files), you can easily test this by disabling prefetching
> for a while.
>
> If this is too much work (or if no difference can be measured),
> the default is probably fine.
>
> Fabian

Actualy on all my servers(more 300 ^_^), I've disable prefetch because on all have the same issue:
http://i.imgur.com/aJNCiBK.png
http://i.imgur.com/Di3FuWw.png
http://i.imgur.com/uunH1k8.png
http://i.imgur.com/vjYiB2K.png


-- 
With Best Regards,
Ilya A. Arkhipov



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