From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 22:11:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919D7106564A for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6958B8FC18 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D587F4; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:52:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:52:18 -0400 From: Daniel Staal To: Dave Cundiff , questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: ZFS Write Lockup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:11:25 -0000 --As of October 4, 2011 2:43:45 AM -0400, Dave Cundiff is alleged to have said: > I don't know what triggers the problem but I know how to fix it. If I > perform a couple snapshot deletes the IO will come back in line every > single time. Fortunately I have LOTS of snapshots to delete. > > [root@san2 ~]# zfs list -r -t snapshot | wc -l > 5236 > [root@san2 ~]# zfs list -r -t volume | wc -l > 17 --As for the rest, it is mine. I have no good advice, but I have a thought. ;) The thought is: Why so many snapshots? And: How many other people have that many snapshots? I know that ZFS is supposed to be able to handle huge numbers of snapshots (far more than a few thousand, from my understanding), but if it hasn't been used much in that config, there may be bugs lurking. You might try weeding through and figuring out if you can drop a good amount of those snapshots. Also, try the filesystems list. They may have better thoughts. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------