From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 10 11:47:13 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1C12375D3 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48GPJw4h4Lz4Mds for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:47:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1581335233; x=1583927233; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=fwSojVJKdZwreRSPUsdtDbt++lbB5L6LWg6mzmhzGXM=; b=UivwQCs5YoD+qV4AWnJ4d2cFW1MvKOiTZcqJ6VxAIl5xCVIx0CgIZacyOETqz9dnnFR+s2NfAd1Wr3gUXXWDp/V2ZE+UPQlh3Zjs9xlCsgpIgCB4xjxu63+b8vmmdo9nd99GD4kyNWeRh6n+A0JNrxwj6jOIBszBNVYL8ydKOeU= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi42ZTAwMDAwMmJiZGU5My5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.191.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:47:06 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:47:05 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1j17Wq-000CYg-B4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:47:04 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:47:04 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad ZFS performance on the desktop Message-Id: <20200210114704.21595eab746d3ccf62f7e879@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <38784851581324349@sas2-2d551da8e887.qloud-c.yandex.net> References: <17394471581319158@vla1-b55dfea406f0.qloud-c.yandex.net> <20200210074555.7f409476708f05bd10c1efb0@sohara.org> <38784851581324349@sas2-2d551da8e887.qloud-c.yandex.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48GPJw4h4Lz4Mds X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=UivwQCs5; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.88 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.989,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; IP_SCORE(0.11)[ip: (-0.31), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(0.61), asn: 7381(0.30), country: US(-0.05)]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:47:13 -0000 On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:45:49 +0000 Erik Lauritsen wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:19:18 +0000 > > Erik Lauritsen wrote: > > > >> I have monitored ZFS using 'top' and can see that it never eats > >> more than half of my memory, so it's not because I'm out of > >> memory. > > > > Is there any sign of swap activity ? This sounds a lot like swap > > thrashing. > > There is no swap activity. I have 16 GB in the box and the ARC is > set to 10GB, but it never reaches that. Bang goes that theory :) Does zpool status shed any light ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith