Re: [zfs-discuss] Pause Solaris with ZFS compression busy by doing a cp?

2008-06-03 Thread roland
Try running iostat in another ssh window, you'll see it can't even gather stats every 5 seconds (below is iostats every 5 seconds): Tue May 27 09:26:41 2008 Tue May 27 09:26:57 2008 Tue May 27 09:27:34 2008 that should not happen! i`d call that a bug! how does vmstat behave with lzjb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pause Solaris with ZFS compression busy by doing a cp?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Perrin
I also noticed (perhaps by design) that a copy with compression off almost instantly returns, but the writes continue LONG after the cp process claims to be done. Is this normal? Yes this is normal. Unless the application is doing synchronous writes (eg DB) the file will be written to disk at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pause Solaris with ZFS compression busy by doing a cp?

2008-05-22 Thread Bart Smaalders
Neil Perrin wrote: I also noticed (perhaps by design) that a copy with compression off almost instantly returns, but the writes continue LONG after the cp process claims to be done. Is this normal? Yes this is normal. Unless the application is doing synchronous writes (eg DB) the file will

[zfs-discuss] Pause Solaris with ZFS compression busy by doing a cp?

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
Hardware: Supermicro server with Adaptec 5405 SAS controller, LSI expander - 24 drives. Currently using 2x 1tb SAS drives striped and 1x750gb SATA as another pool. I don't think hardware is related though as if I turn off zfs compression it's fine - I seem to get same behavior on either pool.