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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2022 20:11:20 -0500
From:      mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: md disks EXTREMELY slow 12.3-STABLE
Message-ID:  <bdc83a45-4bed-d896-0709-e8253bded1bb@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <8eb0baaa-f22b-57f7-6b6f-6d93ddb2dee5@denninger.net>
References:  <97013161-b119-4c98-a294-c733ca000a34@denninger.net> <e775b9ba-d506-8189-ab18-c8bc4f384c42@gmx.at> <8eb0baaa-f22b-57f7-6b6f-6d93ddb2dee5@denninger.net>

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On 3/4/2022 3:06 PM, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 3/4/2022 14:34, infoomatic wrote:
>> On 04.03.22 17:22, Karl Denninger wrote:
>>> Load average is 0.3 yet the md0 drive is pinned at 100% busy with just
>>> 50 transactions-per-second!
>>
>> you mean md(4), the memory disk, right? ... just to be sure it is no 
>> typo
>>
> Correct.
>
> I think I've found the issue -- The "-13" build is using a vnode on 
> the spinning rust ZFS pool (albeit a fairly high-performance one 
> comprised of mirrored vdevs) for backing store.  I'm not sure WHY this 
> winds up being so insanely slow, but it does.  I'm going to move it 
> either to memory/swap (since I have a bunch) or stick it on the SSD 
> pool since creating an md in RAM is, as expected, ridiculously fast.
>

/Try doing mount -o async. It makes a big difference speed wise for writes.
/

/    ---Mike/




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