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Date:      Tue, 26 May 2009 21:38:42 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Kai Gallasch <gallasch@free.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFT: ZFS MFC
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90905262138p7b196bc7ga2febb4667778e22@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A1C1E15.3080300@free.de>
References:  <3c1674c90905151628h183cb1c2t8941843f8a828d4f@mail.gmail.com> <4A1C1E15.3080300@free.de>

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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Kai Gallasch <gallasch@free.de> wrote:
> Kip Macy wrote:
>> I've MFC'd ZFS v13 to RELENG_7 in a work branch. Please test if you can.
>>
>> http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/kmacy/ZFS_MFC/
>>
>> The standard disclaimers apply. This has only been lightly tested in a
>> VM. Please do not use it with data you care about at this time.
>>
>
> Hi.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/zfs/zfs_prop.c
>
> So ZFS v13 is now part of RELENG_7 MAIN.
> Did you receive any negative feedback until now?
>
> zpool upgrade:
> Should a ZFS v6 pool be upgraded through 'zpool upgrade' while in use?
>
> loader.conf:
> My old loader.conf (7.2-STABLE-amd64) settings for zfs:
>
> vm.kmem_size="3072M"
> vm.kmem_size_max="3072M"
> vfs.zfs.arc_min="120795878"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="2899101078"
> # more stability?
> vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1
>
> Is there a need to keep the old (painfully found :) known to work
> settings when upgrading from ZFS v6 to v13 on RELENG_7, because in your
> commit message I read: "- the arc now experiences backpressure from the
> vm (which can be too much - but this allows ZFS to work without any
> tunables on amd64)"
>

Machines with less than 4GB, especially those with workloads with poor
locality,  should have prefetch disabled. You should not need the
other tunables on amd64 (i386 is both a lower priority and a harder
problem). When reporting problems report them with the tunables
removed as well as whatever your existing tunables are.


-Kip



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