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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:45:02 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS txg implementation flaw
Message-ID:  <0F1D571E-2806-4392-A5EC-BE66A3C92BF7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131028092844.GA24997@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20131028092844.GA24997@zxy.spb.ru>

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On Oct 28, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:

> I can be wrong.
> As I see ZFS cretate seperate thread for earch txg writing.
> Also for writing to L2ARC.
> As result -- up to several thousands threads created and destoyed per
> second. And hundreds thousands page allocations, zeroing, maping
> unmaping and freeing per seconds. Very high overhead.
> 
> In systat -vmstat I see totfr up to 600000, prcfr up to 200000.
> 
> Estimated overhead -- 30% of system time.
> 
> Can anybody implement thread and page pool for txg?

Would lowering vfs.zfs.txg.timeout be a way to tame or mitigate this?

- aurf



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