Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:01:28 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Robert Eckardt <rol@robert-eckardt.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: ZFS continuously growing Message-ID: <d36406630909030201l36be8f6em4296f7b24306ee57@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090903080558.M13772@Robert-Eckardt.de> References: <20090902193059.M336@Robert-Eckardt.de> <78cb3d3f0909030009y505a30by769052258576bfeb@mail.gmail.com> <20090903071913.M84990@Robert-Eckardt.de> <20090903080558.M13772@Robert-Eckardt.de>
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2009/9/3 Robert Eckardt <rol@robert-eckardt.de> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:09:19 +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Robert Eckardt > > <Robert.Eckardt@robert-eckardt.de> wrote: > > > Do I have to be worried? > > > Is there a memory leak in the current ZFS implementation? > > > Why is used space growing slower than free space is shrinking? > > > Is there some garbage collection needed in ZFS? > > > > > > Besides, although the backup server has 3 GB RAM I had to tune arc_max > > > to 150MB to copy the backed-up data from an 2.8TB ZFS (v6) to the > > > 4.5 TB ZFS (v13) by "zfs send|zfs recv" without kmalloc panic. > > > (I.e., the defaults algorithm was not sufficient.) > > > > Do I take you are using ZFS snapshots in between rsync'ing > > (send/recv requires snapshots) ? Could you please post the "zfs > > list" output after subsequent runs to clarify ? > > > > Regards, > > Adrian > > EnterpriseBSD > > Hi Adrian, > > no I'm not using snapshots. Just seperate directories, where identical > files are hardlinked by rsync to the version one day older. > The send|recv was neccessary when I increased the raidz of the backup-fs. > (Copying everthing to two 1.5TB HDDs and after adding disks back again. > I used s.th. like "zfs send bigpool/big@backup | zfs recv big/big".) > > Here the zfs list of the last five days: > Thu Sep 3 09:36:12 CEST 2009 (Today add. 2GB of data were transfered.) > big 1861882752 0 1861882752 0% 5 14545959 > 0% /big > big/big 4676727168 2814844416 1861882752 60% 43137409 14545959 > 75% /big/big > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > big 2.72T 1.73T 31.5K /big > big/big 2.72T 1.73T 2.62T /big/big > > Wed Sep 2 09:36:24 CEST 2009 > big 1869058944 128 1869058816 0% 5 14602022 > 0% /big > big/big 4679698688 2810639872 1869058816 60% 43226966 14602022 > 75% /big/big > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > big 2.72T 1.74T 31.5K /big > big/big 2.72T 1.74T 2.62T /big/big > > Tue Sep 1 09:36:33 CEST 2009 > big 1875352064 0 1875352064 0% 5 14651188 > 0% /big > big/big 4683241856 2807889792 1875352064 60% 43316454 14651188 > 75% /big/big > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > big 2.71T 1.75T 31.5K /big > big/big 2.71T 1.75T 2.62T /big/big > > Mon Aug 31 09:45:26 CEST 2009 > big 1881967616 128 1881967488 0% 5 14702871 > 0% /big > big/big 4686380928 2804413440 1881967488 60% 43406044 14702871 > 75% /big/big > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > big 2.71T 1.75T 31.5K /big > big/big 2.71T 1.75T 2.61T /big/big > > Sun Aug 30 09:39:31 CEST 2009 > big 1891064192 0 1891064192 0% 5 14773939 > 0% /big > big/big 4694821376 2803757184 1891064192 60% 43496712 14773939 > 75% /big/big > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > big 2.70T 1.76T 31.5K /big > big/big 2.70T 1.76T 2.61T /big/big > > Regards, > Robert > > -- > Dr. Robert Eckardt --- Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > do a " zfs list -t all" you will see all snapshots and zvols then as well
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