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Date:      Sun, 31 May 2020 00:02:59 +0100
From:      Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS on FreeBSD 11.3 slower than 10.4
Message-ID:  <a550c2f3-d988-4b1e-ff02-accd29b91b40@multiplay.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <8c64cc48-7d79-7591-8bb5-67f3127463b7@quip.cz>
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Whats the state of your disks when the slowdown happens, do they look 
saturated at a??

On 30/05/2020 22:29, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> On 2020-05-30 22:10, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 May 2020 21:44:03 +0200, Miroslav Lachman 
>> <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> I upgraded my old desktop computer few month ago from old 10.4 based 
>>> PC-BSD to stock FreeBSD 11.3. It uses single 2TB HDD 7200rpm.
>>> My problem is that upgraded version is really slow and some desktop 
>>> applications are very lagging (playing multimedia is interrupted for 
>>> a fraction of seconds) when there is heavy filesystem activity.
>>>
>>> I am using zfsnap2 for taking snapshots periodically and when there 
>>> is enough snapshots zfs destroy is called. In this time the user 
>>> experience is terrible. Starting new application like browser or 
>>> even something much smaller takes minutes. The old version based on 
>>> FreeBSD 10.4 behaves much better. I used the old version for years 
>>> and never have problems with interrupted multimedia playback.
>>>
>>> Are there some sysctls to tune to get better desktop interactivity 
>>> in heavy filesystem operations like zfs destroy, pkg check or other 
>>> "find" periodic scripts?
>
>
>> How full is the disk? ZFS has poor performance if the disk becomes full.
>> What is in /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf?
>> And did you try to boot 12.1 and did it have the same behavious?
>
> It is currently 77% full. But it is the same pool with the same 
> capacity as with 10.4.
>
> I didn't try 12.1, I need to stay on 11.3 for now.
>
> ## loader.conf
>
> nvidia_load="YES"
> drm_load="YES"
> drm2_load="YES"
> iicbus_load="YES"
> vboxdrv_load="YES"
> crypto_load="YES"
> aesni_load="YES"
> geom_eli_load="YES"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="1024M"
> zfs_load="YES"
> iicbus_load="YES"
>
> ## sysctl.conf
>
> kern.coredump=0
> kern.maxfiles=49312
> vfs.usermount=1
> security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1
> security.jail.sysvipc_allowed=1
> security.jail.mount_allowed=1
> security.jail.chflags_allowed=1
> hw.syscons.bell=0
> kern.sched.preempt_thresh=224
> kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
> kern.shutdown.poweroff_delay=500
> kern.bootfile=/boot/kernel/kernel
> hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1
> hw.snd.default_unit=3
> kern.sched.interact=10
> vfs.aio.max_aio_per_proc=256
> vfs.aio.max_aio_queue=8192
> vfs.aio.max_aio_queue_per_proc=1024
> vfs.aio.max_buf_aio=64
> net.local.stream.recvspace=65536
> net.local.stream.sendspace=65536
>
>
> loader.conf and sysctl.conf are the same for 10.4 and 11.3 but 11.3 is 
> much much slower when it comes to heavy IO like "find" daily periodic 
> scripts, zfs destroy, starting new applications etc.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
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