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Date:      Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:58:17 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nullfs and ZFS issues
Message-ID:  <20220424195817.Horde.W5ApGT13KmR06W2pKA0COxB@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Quoting Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> (from Fri, 22=20=20
Apr=202022 09:04:39 +0200):

> Quoting Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> (from Thu, 21 Apr 2022=20=
=20
>=2009:38:35 -0700):

>> I've attached mount.patch that when doing mount -v should
>> show the vnode usage per filesystem.  Note that the problem I was
>> running into was after some operations arc_prune and arc_evict would
>> consume 100% of 2 cores and make ZFS really slow.  If you are not
>> running into that issue then nocache etc. shouldn't be needed.
>
> I don't run into this issue, but I have a huge perf difference when=20=20
>=20using nocache in the nightly periodic runs. 4h instead of 12-24h (22=20=
=20
>=20jails on this system).
>
>> On my laptop I set ARC to 1G since I don't use swap and in the past
>> ARC would consume to much memory and things would die.  When the
>> nullfs holds a bunch of vnodes then ZFS couldn't release them.
>>
>> FYI, on my laptop with nocache and limited vnodes I haven't run
>> into this problem.  I haven't tried the patch to let ZFS free
>> it's and nullfs vnodes on my laptop.  I have only tried it via
>
> I have this patch and your mount patch installed now, without=20=20
>=20nocache and reduced arc reclaim settings (100, 1). I will check the=20=
=20
>=20runtime for the next 2 days.

9-10h runtime with the above settings (compared to 4h with nocache and=20=
=20
12-24h=20without any patch and without nocache).
I changed the sysctls back to the defaults and will see in the next=20=20
run=20(in 7h) what the result is with just the patches.

Bye,
Alexander.
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