From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 28 18:27:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883D793F for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericbrowning@skaggscatholiccenter.org) Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com (mail-pa0-f51.google.com [209.85.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6008A2D5E for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id lf1so6574359pab.24 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=SAvYCzPXaxefiM8Pg5rxO5ymd/RcnHLI1Ib0eWm7zIU=; b=UjDWfjxFNrXdTS/X18xcGooSKWdFc+SpjlOI997dt+thWIO1fxcY53Ve5H5+TPPElJ kCz9YEaUNtaRpw9q7bVBxz4lmzt+mISmgOX/R1m1YHx7T5z+pj5ryVcmoK1cLkcm6JJ1 SFBdtGgKB/pJzUHhYpYh1Zhh37IXuf5itSVy6ryFLyc+R58ai1DRfN0OW5FXZcLgdccx +EvdJAj2pu1FFPK5hDQOhlKe7Y7mOOWitNDFCUzhBMs7EhK/9/YxqoIecqXto3Wf4zlg wySfuMZwNRZpkFZClI8/rDYAgJxZ+IBJIDtAs7NqHdgGl89F0gdT50D/mDIUili2Zhtz qIWQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmJKx7f2ZuBoSd0OhlwEV7KvnpkVfV+xXBVy5VoKNYowIm3Zx+IVcanmbuoD21oISnMV+9x MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.154.169 with SMTP id vp9mr3577192pab.190.1377714460375; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.26.4 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2008996797.14358576.1377631792358.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> References: <2008996797.14358576.1377631792358.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:27:40 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: NFS on ZFS pure SSD pool From: Eric Browning To: Rick Macklem , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:27:41 -0000 Rick, Sam and I applied the patch (kernel now at r254983M) and set vfs.nfsd.tcphighwater=5000 in sysctl.conf and my CPU is still slammed. SHould I up it to 10000? On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > Eric Browning wrote: > > Hello, first time posting to this list. I have a new server that is > > not > > living up to the promise of SSD speeds and NFS is maxing out the CPU. > > I'm > > new to FreeBSD but I've been reading up on it as much as I can. I > > have > > obscured my IP addresses and hostname with x's so just ignore that. > > Server has about 200 users on it each draing under 50Mb/s peak > > sustained > > around 1-2Mb/s > > > > I've followed some network tuning guides for our I350t4 nic and that > > has > > helped with network performance somewhat but the server is still > > experiencing heavy load with pegging the CPU at 1250% on average with > > only > > 50Mb/s of traffin in/out of the machine. All of the network tuning > > came > > from https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html since it was > > relevant > > to the same nic that I have. > > > > Server Specs: > > FreeBSD 9.1 > > 16 cores AMDx64 > > 64GB of ram > > ZFS v28 with four Intel DC S3700 drives (800GB) as a zfs stripe > > Intel DC S3500 for ZIL and enabling/disabling has made no > > difference > > Used a spare DC S3700 for the ZIL and that made no difference > > either. > > NFS v3 & v4 for Mac home folders whose Cache fodler is redirected. > > > > I've tried: > > Compression on/of <-- no appreciable difference > > Deduplication on/off <-- no appreciable difference > > sync=disabled and sync=standard <-- no appreciable difference > > setting arc cache to 56GB and also to 32GB <-- no difference in > > performance > > in terms of kern. > > > > I've tried to follow the freebsd tuning guide: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide to no avail either. I've > > read > > everything I can find on NFS on ZFS and nothing has helped. WHere am > > I > > going wrong? > > > You could try this patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/drc4-stable9.patch > - After applying the patch and booting a kernel built from the patched > sources, you need to increase the value of vfs.nfsd.tcphighwater. > (Try something like 5000 for it as a starting point.) > > Although this patch is somewhat different code, it should be semantically > the same as r254337 in head, that is scheduled to be MFC'd to stable/9 in > a couple of weeks. > > rick > > > Here's /boot/loader: > > [quote] > > # ZFS tuning tweaks > > aio_load="YES" # Async IO system calls > > autoboot_delay="10" # reduce boot menu delay time from 10 to 3 > > seconds > > vfs.zfs.arc_max="56868864000" # Reserves 10GB or ram for system, > > leaves > > 56GB for ZFS > > vfs.zfs.cache_flush_disable="1" > > #vfs.zfs.prefetch_disble="1" > > vfs.zfs.write_limit_override="429496728" > > > > kern.ipc.nmbclusters="264144" # increase the number of network > > mbufs > > kern.maxfiles="65535" > > net.inet.tcp.syncache.hashsize="1024" # Size of the syncache hash > > table > > net.inet.tcp.syncache.bucketlimit="100" # Limit the number of entries > > permitted in each bucket of the hash table. > > net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize="32768" > > > > # Link Aggregation loader tweaks. see: > > https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html > > hw.igb.enable_msix="1" > > hw.igb.num_queues="0" > > hw.igb.enable_aim="1" > > hw.igb.max_interrupt_rate="32000" > > hw.igb.rxd="2048" > > hw.igb.txd="2048" > > hw.igb.rx_process_limit="4096" > > if_lagg_load="YES" > > [/quote] > > > > Here's etc/sysctl.conf: > > [quote] > > # $FreeBSD: release/9.1.0/etc/sysctl.conf 112200 2003-03-13 18:43:50Z > > mux $ > > # > > # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped > > thru > > # ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``man 5 sysctl.conf'' for > > details. > > # > > > > # Uncomment this to prevent users from seeing information about > > processes > > that > > # are being run under another UID. > > #security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 > > kern.ipc.somaxconn=1024 > > kern.maxusers=272 > > #kern.maxvnodes=1096848 #increase this if necessary > > kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=8388608 > > net.inet.tcp.mssdflt=1460 > > net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 > > net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 > > dev.igb.2.fc=0 > > dev.igb.3.fc=0 > > dev.igb.4.fc=0 > > dev.igb.5.fc=0 > > dev.igb.2.rx_procesing_limit=10000 > > dev.igb.3.rx_procesing_limit=10000 > > dev.igb.4.rx_procesing_limit=10000 > > dev.igb.5.rx_procesing_limit=10000 > > net.inet.ip.redirect=0 > > net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=0 # do not respond to ICMP packets sent > > to IP > > .255 > > net.inet.icmp.maskfake=0 # do not fake reply to ICMP Address > > Mask > > Request packets > > net.inet.icmp.maskrepl=0 # replies are not sent for ICMP > > address mask > > net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=0 # do not log redirected ICMP packet > > attempts > > net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 # no redirected ICMP packets > > net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin=1 # SYN/FIN packets get dropped on > > initial > > connection > > net.inet.tcp.ecn.enable=1 # explicit congestion notification > > (ecn) > > warning: some ISP routers abuse it > > net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst=0 # icmp may not send RST to avoid > > spoofed > > icmp/udp floods > > net.inet.tcp.maxtcptw=15000 # max number of tcp time_wait states > > for > > closing connections > > net.inet.tcp.msl=5000 # 5 second maximum segment life > > waiting for > > an ACK in reply to a SYN-ACK or FIN-ACK > > net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery=0 # disable MTU discovery since most > > ICMP > > packets are dropped by others > > net.inet.tcp.rfc3042=0 # disable the limited transmit > > mechanism > > which can slow burst transmissions > > net.inet.ip.rtexpire=60 # 3600 secs > > net.inet.ip.rtminexpire=2 # 10 secs > > net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache=1024 # 128 entries > > [/quote] > > > > Here's /etc/rc.conf > > [quote] > > #ifconfig_igb2=" inet xxx.xx.x.xx netmask 255.255.248.0" > > hostname="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > > # > > # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable > > dumpdev="NO" > > # > > ### LACP config > > ifconfig_igb2="up" > > ifconfig_igb3="up" > > ifconfig_igb4="up" > > ifconfig_igb5="up" > > cloned_interfaces="lagg0" > > ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport igb2 laggport igb3 laggport > > igb4 > > laggport igb5 xxx.xx.x.xx netmask 255.255.248.0" > > ipvr_addrs_lagg0="xxx.xx.x.xx" > > defaultrouter="xxx.xx.x.xx" > > # > > ### Defaults for SSH, NTP, ZFS > > sshd_enable="YES" > > ntpd_enable="YES" > > zfs_enable="YES" > > # > > ## NFS Server > > rpcbind_enable="YES" > > nfs_server_enable="YES" > > mountd_flags="-r -l" > > nfsd_enable="YES" > > mountd_enable="YES" > > rpc_lockd_enable="NO" > > rpc_statd_enable="NO" > > nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 128" > > nfsv4_server_enable="YES" > > nfsuserd_enable="YES" > > [/quote] > > > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > > Eric Browning > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Eric Browning Systems Administrator 801-984-7623 Skaggs Catholic Center Juan Diego Catholic High School Saint John the Baptist Middle Saint John the Baptist Elementary