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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:41:44 +0100
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS - Abyssal slow on copying
Message-ID:  <20161030134144.2c42a858.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <20161004124232.6d655b61@fabiankeil.de>
References:  <20161002212504.2d782002.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20161004124232.6d655b61@fabiankeil.de>

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Am Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:42:32 +0200
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> schrieb:

> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>=20
> > Running 12-CURRENT (FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #32 r306579: Sun Oct  2 09:34:=
50 CEST 2016
> > ), I have a NanoBSD setup which creates an image for a router device.
> >=20
> > The problem I face is related to ZFS. The system has a system's SSD (Sa=
msung 850 Pro,
> > 256GB) which has an UFS filesystem. Aditionally, I have also a backup a=
nd a data HDD,
> > both WD, one 3 TB WD RED Pro, on 4 TB WD RED (the backup device). Both =
the sources for
> > the NanoBSD and the object tree as well as the NANO_WORLDDIR are residi=
ng on the 3 TB
> > data drive.=20
> >=20
> > The box itself has 8 GB RAM. When it comes to create the memory disk, w=
hich is ~ 1,3
> > GB in size, the NanoBSD script starts creating the memory disk and then=
 installing
> > world into this memory disk. And this part is a kind of abyssal in term=
s of the
> > speed. =20
>=20
> Can you reproduce the issue if you replace the memory disk with
> a zvol or tmpfs?
>=20
> While I agree that depulication could be the cause of the problem,
> it probably wouldn't hurt to rule out a memory-disk related issue
> before recreating the pool.
>=20
> Fabian

I guess this issue was triggered due to having deduplication enabled on the=
 ZFS pool
rather than on the ZFS partitions (this is a guess based upon comments made=
 by knowing
people and the fact, that the noisy copying and slowness went away after re=
moving dedup
from the ZFS pool).

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