Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:18:14 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slowdown of zfs (tx->tx) Message-ID: <op.wq2k8or38527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl> In-Reply-To: <20130117093259.GA83951@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> References: <20130114195148.GA20540@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jwJ4qhbOovN_NhzusdQJvrbvUC3g93sziR=Uw99SGenw@mail.gmail.com> <20130114214652.GA76779@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jKX-Ks6C1RK5GwZ51ZVUSnGSe7S99_EfK%2BfwLPjAFFYw@mail.gmail.com> <20130115224556.GA41774@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jJnWdbikPmE1-UML5i_x7meF%2BiyY=9WBRyv2j7AeOaSg@mail.gmail.com> <50F67551.5020704@FreeBSD.org> <20130116095009.GA36867@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <FD780217EA4548F187715AF1AAF2B91A@multiplay.co.uk> <50F69788.2040506@FreeBSD.org> <20130117093259.GA83951@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de>
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:32:59 +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-mas-0@ml.turing-complete.org> wrote: > * Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> [2013-01-16 14:05 +0200]: >> on 16/01/2013 12:14 Steven Hartland said the following: >> > You only have ~11% free so yer it is pretty full ;-) >> >> just in case, Steve is not kidding. >> >> Those free hundreds of gigabytes could be spread over the terabytes and >> could be >> quite fragmented if the pool has a history of adding and removing lots >> of files. >> ZFS could be spending quite a lot of time in that case when it looks >> for some >> free space and tries to minimize further fragmentation. >> >> Empirical/anecdotal safe limit on pool utilization is said to be about >> 70-80%. >> >> You can test if this guess is true by doing the following: >> kgdb -w >> (kgdb) set metaslab_min_alloc_size=4096 >> >> If performance noticeably improves after that, then this is your >> problem indeed. > > I tried this, but I didn't notice any difference in performance. > > Next I'll try the update Artem suggested. > > Thanks > > Nicolas Did you already try to free some space? Ronald.
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