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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:29:36 +0200
From:      Ian FREISLICH <ianf@cloudseed.co.za>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem wedges caused by r251446
Message-ID:  <E1Uy3dY-0003tu-En@clue.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20130713164814.GM91021@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20130713164814.GM91021@kib.kiev.ua> <20130713054220.GJ91021@kib.kiev.ua> <20130712201051.GI91021@kib.kiev.ua> <201307110923.06548.jhb@freebsd.org> <201307091202.24493.jhb@freebsd.org> <E1UufRq-0001sg-HG@clue.co.za> <E1UxEWB-0000il-21@clue.co.za> <E1Uxhoe-0000d9-Sc@clue.co.za> <E1Uxkyo-0002mE-MJ@clue.co.za> <E1Uxuy4-0003KB-OZ@clue.co.za> <E1Uy2r2-0003r7-0x@clue.co.za>

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Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > So, then did r251446 actually start using this value or did other
> > values get significantly tuned up?  I recall now setting this nearly
> > a year ago when we did our ZFS tuning and it was a four fold increase
> > on the defaults.
> 
> r251446 optimized the wakeups by only doing wakeups when runningbufspace
> actually crossed the lorunningspace.  Before, wakeups were performed
> always on the runningbufspace changes.
> 
> For ZFS, these settings are completely irrelevant, ZFS does not use
> buffer cache.

A year is so long ago...  It might have been tuning for our postgres
servers.

It might be worth while putting in a sanity check that doesn't allow
hirunningspace to be set lower than lorunningspace.

Thanks for your patience.

Ian

-- 
Ian Freislich



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