From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 28 21:57:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D96D9D6 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zxy.spb.ru (zxy.spb.ru [195.70.199.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5121732 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slw by zxy.spb.ru with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Vm9dP-000Kg5-Gi for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:00:31 +0400 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:00:31 +0400 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: zfs unneceary massive IO writing Message-ID: <20131128220031.GA77254@zxy.spb.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: slw@zxy.spb.ru X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on zxy.spb.ru); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:57:31 -0000 I have host with 8-STABLE and ZFS. ZFS setup is very simple: zfs_www 880G 665G 215G 75% 1.00x ONLINE - aacd0s3 880G 665G 215G - No L2ARC, no ZIL, copies=1 After creating small file (or append some bytes to file) I see very large write to disk (400 write ops, total up to 1MB). How I can discover this problem? dtrace on zio_create? How I can diagnose source of IO operation?