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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:06:44 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unusual ZFS behaviour
Message-ID:  <3cad03f3-f3f6-4d6f-976b-55f5af8909db@chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <f8764549-773a-4695-b1fc-76e70e49de1b@chen.org.nz>
References:  <f8764549-773a-4695-b1fc-76e70e49de1b@chen.org.nz>

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On 22/11/23 19:49, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a somewhat recent version of STABLE-13/amd64: 
> stable/13-n256681-0b7939d725ba: Fri Nov 10 08:48:36 NZDT 2023, and I'm 
> seeing some unusual behaviour with ZFS.
> 
> To reproduce:
>   1. one big empty disk, GPT scheme, 1 freebsd-zfs partition.
>   2. create a zpool, eg: tank
>   3. create 2 sub-filesystems, eg: tank/one, tank/two
>   4. fill each sub-filesystem with large files until the pool is ~80% 
> full. In my case I had 200 10Gb files in each.
>   5. in one session run 'md5 tank/one/*'
>   6. in another session run 'md5 tank/two/*'
> 
> For most of my runs, one of the sessions against a sub-filesystem will 
> be starved of I/O, while the other one is performant.

I've run a few more tests, and the issue appears to be isolated to my 
Alder Lake based system only. So it's more likely to be an issue with 
the 'Alder Lake-S PCH SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]' or maybe the 
scheduler using the P & E cores.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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