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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:48:14 -0800
From:      George Kola <georgekola@gmail.com>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARC size limit
Message-ID:  <F6BFA688-9D13-4DD9-8B8A-22F4ACFD7622@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54589722.3080803@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <3B70EA0C-0976-49D6-8418-6B5D22ED7E65@gmail.com> <54589722.3080803@multiplay.co.uk>

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Thanks Steven. We are running 10.1rc3. Is the best way to get this patch =
to just compile 10-stable kernel ? We are new to running FreeBSD and =
hence the newbie question.


Thanks,
George



> On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:06 AM, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> =
wrote:
>=20
> You need https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D2728=
75
> On 04/11/2014 06:29, George Kola wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>        This is my first post to freebsd-stable fresh of Meet BSD =
California 2014.  We are switching our entire production to FreeBSD. Our =
storage servers have  256 GB of RAM , 4 TB of SSD and 40 TB of spinning =
disks. We are running ZFS root and the SSD is configured as L2ARC.  We =
are running FreeBSD 10.1 RC3
>>        I am finding that on all our machines, ARC is somehow limited =
to < 64 GB of memory and we have a huge inactive memory (180 G). The =
surprising thing is that ARC seems to have almost the same limit  (< 64 =
GB) on all of our storage boxes and ARC is not growing even though L2ARC =
hit shows that there is advantage in growing ARC.
>>        Any help/pointers is appreciated.
>>        What I am trying to do is to tune ZFS for our workload. We are =
hoping that we get a high hit rate.
>>        Thanks to Justin Gibbs and Allan Jude for initial pointers and =
help. They suggested posting to the mailing list to get further help.
>>=20
>>        I have pasted top output and zfs-stats output below and yes =
UMA is enabled.
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> George
>>       =20
>>=20
>> top
>> last pid: 27458;  load averages:  3.30,  5.42,  5.34                  =
                                                                         =
     up 6+09:59:30  05:38:49
>> 71 processes:  1 running, 70 sleeping
>> CPU:  4.2% user,  0.0% nice,  4.6% system,  0.2% interrupt, 90.9% =
idle
>> Mem: 11G Active, 181G Inact, 52G Wired, 1368M Cache, 4266M Free
>> ARC: 47G Total, 1555M MFU, 41G MRU, 35M Anon, 3984M Header, 709M =
Other
>> Swap: 64G Total, 2874M Used, 61G Free, 4% Inuse
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> sysctl vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma
>> vfs.zfs.zio.use_uma: 1
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> zfs-mon -a output
>>=20
>> ZFS real-time cache activity monitor
>> Seconds elapsed:  62
>>=20
>> Cache hits and misses:
>>                                   1s    10s    60s    tot
>>                      ARC hits:   124    126    103    101
>>                    ARC misses:    35     46     29     28
>>          ARC demand data hits:    55     90     61     61
>>        ARC demand data misses:    20     32     18     17
>>      ARC demand metadata hits:    69     36     42     40
>>    ARC demand metadata misses:     9     13     10      9
>>        ARC prefetch data hits:     0      0      0      0
>>      ARC prefetch data misses:     6      1      1      1
>>    ARC prefetch metadata hits:     0      0      0      0
>>  ARC prefetch metadata misses:     0      0      0      0
>>                    L2ARC hits:    16     28     14     14
>>                  L2ARC misses:    19     18     15     14
>>                   ZFETCH hits:   592   2842   2098   2047
>>                 ZFETCH misses:   308   1326    507    494
>>=20
>> Cache efficiency percentage:
>>                           10s    60s    tot
>>                   ARC:  73.26  78.03  78.29
>>       ARC demand data:  73.77  77.22  78.21
>>   ARC demand metadata:  73.47  80.77  81.63
>>     ARC prefetch data:   0.00   0.00   0.00
>> ARC prefetch metadata:   0.00   0.00   0.00
>>                 L2ARC:  60.87  48.28  50.00
>>                ZFETCH:  68.19  80.54  80.56
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> zfs-stats -a output
>>=20
>> ZFS real-time cache activity monitor
>> Seconds elapsed:  62
>>=20
>> Cache hits and misses:
>>                                   1s    10s    60s    tot
>>                      ARC hits:   124    126    103    101
>>                    ARC misses:    35     46     29     28
>>          ARC demand data hits:    55     90     61     61
>>        ARC demand data misses:    20     32     18     17
>>      ARC demand metadata hits:    69     36     42     40
>>    ARC demand metadata misses:     9     13     10      9
>>        ARC prefetch data hits:     0      0      0      0
>>      ARC prefetch data misses:     6      1      1      1
>>    ARC prefetch metadata hits:     0      0      0      0
>>  ARC prefetch metadata misses:     0      0      0      0
>>                    L2ARC hits:    16     28     14     14
>>                  L2ARC misses:    19     18     15     14
>>                   ZFETCH hits:   592   2842   2098   2047
>>                 ZFETCH misses:   308   1326    507    494
>>=20
>> Cache efficiency percentage:
>>                           10s    60s    tot
>>                   ARC:  73.26  78.03  78.29
>>       ARC demand data:  73.77  77.22  78.21
>>   ARC demand metadata:  73.47  80.77  81.63
>>     ARC prefetch data:   0.00   0.00   0.00
>> ARC prefetch metadata:   0.00   0.00   0.00
>>                 L2ARC:  60.87  48.28  50.00
>>                ZFETCH:  68.19  80.54  80.56
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
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