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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:53:29 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Solon Lutz" <solon@pyro.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS RaidZ2 with 24 drives?
Message-ID:  <op.u5gbvfgz8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1696529130.20091223212612@pyro.de>
References:  <568624531.20091215163420@pyro.de> <42952D86-6B4D-49A3-8E4F-7A1A53A954C2@spry.com> <957649379.20091216005253@pyro.de> <26F8D203-A923-47D3-9935-BE4BC6DA09B7@corp.spry.com> <1696529130.20091223212612@pyro.de>

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Isn't it write caching?
My Solaris machine at work also flushes the data every 30 seconds.

Ronald.

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:26:12 +0100, Solon Lutz <solon@pyro.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I opted for two 12-disc raidz2.
> Reasons were: Space is more important than performance.
>
> But performance is very poor - have a look at the iostats - sometimes =20
> nothing really seems
> to happen for up to ten seconds, or very little data gets  written. =20
> Might this be a problem
> of the amd64 system having only 4GB of RAM? Any tuneable sysctls? =20
> Enabling prefetch didn't help...:
>
>                capacity     operations    bandwidth                   =20
> capacity     operations    bandwidth
> pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write   pool         =20
> used  avail   read  write   read  write
> ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----   ----------  =20
> -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0  1.23K      0   153M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0    510
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0    510
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0    835      0   104M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0    645      0  68.7M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    474      0  59.3M      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      4      0  5.49K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    494      0  61.8M      0	store-1      616G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     53      0  6.73M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     19      0  39.4K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     30      0   140K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     33      0  72.8K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     65      0   162K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     71      0  8.92M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    636      0  79.4M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      4      0  10.5K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    485      0  60.6M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     85      0  10.7M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     15      0  39.9K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     17      0  40.4K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     31      0  73.3K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     62      0   156K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     17      0  2.24M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    189      0  23.6M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      9      0  14.0K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      2     74   133K   247K	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     12      0  17.5K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      1      0   255K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0    100      0  12.6M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0   1012      0   126M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     33      0   137K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     19      0   293K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0    153      0  19.2M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0    109      0  13.7M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      4      0  15.5K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0  1.54K      0   188M
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      6      0   888K      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    556      0  69.5M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      8      0  11.0K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    500      0  62.5M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      5      0   766K      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     16      0  30.4K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     29      0   136K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     38      0  84.7K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     57      0   145K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     92      0  11.6M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    497      0  62.1M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      8      0  9.48K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    534      0  66.7M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    153      0  19.2M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     12      0  12.0K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     26      0   101K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     34      0  76.3K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     62      0   155K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G     75      0  9.48M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G    690      0  86.3M      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      6      0  12.0K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0     10      0  14.0K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      1      0   255K
> backup-7    1.23T   130G      0      0      0      0	store-1      617G =
 =20
> 15.6T      0      0      0      0
>
>
>
>
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