Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:44:18 +0200 From: "Pavlo" <devgs@ukr.net> To: "George Kontostanos" <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and mem management Message-ID: <4633.1329320658.10597993752278204416@ffe16.ukr.net> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BdUSyqRd9DFhhAtQqU%2BVdmUz_kxqo=jSApoGOUd1Q9StrCkxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BdUSyqRd9DFhhAtQqU%2BVdmUz_kxqo=jSApoGOUd1Q9StrCkxA@mail.gmail.com> <41082.1329320114.6955040073494560768@ffe1.ukr.net> <CA%2BdUSyp1p07ERXaL-zLG4ibGB45c7VGBNH3ALL4ZXbXUbeEDiA@mail.gmail.com> <70229.1329318412.9319724204137054208@ffe16.ukr.net>
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--- Original message --- From: "George Kontostanos" <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> To: "Pavlo" <devgs@ukr.net> Date: 15 February 2012, 17:39:46 Subject: Re: ZFS and mem management > 2012/2/15 Pavlo <devgs@ukr.net>: > > > 2012/2/15 Pavlo <devgs@ukr.net>: >> >> >> >>>On 15/02/2012 13:39, Pavlo wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> >> Unfortunately we can't afford disabling prefetch. It is too much >>>> >> >> of an>> overhead.>> >> Also I made some tests. I have process that maps file >>>> >> >> using mmap() and>> writes or reads first byte of each page of mapped file >>>> >> >> with some data.> >>>Note that ZFS is designed so that it interacts somewhat badly with >>>mmap() and other kernel services which rely on coherency between VM and >>>IO such as sendfile(). At the very best, you will have two in-kernel >>>copies of all data buffers used with such interfaces, but there have >>>been sporadic reports that there are other bugs with it. >>> >>>If you have a test server, I'd recommend you do the same test on UFS for >>>comparison. >> >> Was going to try this... Thanks for reply. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > Why do you think that disabling prefetch is an overhead? > > > -- > George Kontostanos > Aicom telecoms ltd > http://www.aisecure.net>; > > > Well... not me though. System administrator >_> . I suppose because we have > a big IO traffic. Not for a highly random I/O environment. -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltdhttp://www.aisecure.net > That's is a reason we don't disable. Our reads and writes mostly contiguous. And that problem arises on machines with low RAM (8Gb and less). Also for obvious reasons swap is disabled.home | help
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