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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:16:31 +0400
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS txg implementation flaw
Message-ID:  <20131028181631.GV63359@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <0F1D571E-2806-4392-A5EC-BE66A3C92BF7@gmail.com>
References:  <20131028092844.GA24997@zxy.spb.ru> <0F1D571E-2806-4392-A5EC-BE66A3C92BF7@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:45:02AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:

> 
> On Oct 28, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 
> > I can be wrong.
> > As I see ZFS cretate seperate thread for earch txg writing.
> > Also for writing to L2ARC.
> > As result -- up to several thousands threads created and destoyed per
> > second. And hundreds thousands page allocations, zeroing, maping
> > unmaping and freeing per seconds. Very high overhead.
> > 
> > In systat -vmstat I see totfr up to 600000, prcfr up to 200000.
> > 
> > Estimated overhead -- 30% of system time.
> > 
> > Can anybody implement thread and page pool for txg?
> 
> Would lowering vfs.zfs.txg.timeout be a way to tame or mitigate this?

vfs.zfs.txg.timeout: 5

Only x5 lowering (less in real case with burst writing). And more fragmentation on writing and etc.



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