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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:25:34 +0100
From:      Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>
Cc:        Freebsd fs <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS stalled after some mirror disks were lost
Message-ID:  <69fbca90-9a18-ad5d-a2f7-ad527d79f8ba@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <feff135a-3175-c5d0-eeb4-5639bb76789e@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4A0E9EB8-57EA-4E76-9D7E-3E344B2037D2@gmail.com> <feff135a-3175-c5d0-eeb4-5639bb76789e@FreeBSD.org>

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On 03/10/2017 07:12, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 02/10/2017 21:12, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>> A sustained read throughput of 180 MB/s, 45 MB/s on each iscsi disk
>> according to "zpool iostat", nothing on local disks (strange but I
>> noticed that IOs always prefer iscsi disks to local disks).
> Are your local disks SSD or HDD?
> Could it be that iSCSI disks appear to be faster than the local disks to the
> smart ZFS mirror code?
>
> Steve, what do you think?
Yes that quite possible, the mirror balancing uses the queue depth + 
rotating bias to determine the load of the disk so if your iSCSI host is 
processing well and / or is reporting non-rotating vs rotating for the 
local disks it could well be the mirror is preferring reads from the the 
less loaded iSCSI devices.

     Regards
     Steve



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