Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-18 Thread Roch - PAE
If some aspect of the load is writing large amount of data into the pool (through the memory cache, as opposed to the zil) and that leads to a frozen system, I think that a possible contributor should be: |6429205||each zpool needs to monitor its throughput and throttle heavy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Rainer Heilke wrote: If you plan on RAC, then ASM makes good sense. It is unclear (to me anyway) if ASM over a zvol is better than ASM over a raw LUN. Hmm. I thought ASM was really the _only_ effective way to do RAC, but then, I'm not a DBA (and don't want to be ;-) We'll be just using raw

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Casper . Dik
We had a 2TB filesystem. No matter what options I set explicitly, the UFS filesystem kept getting written with a 1 million file limit. Believe me, I tried a lot of options, and they kept getting se t back on me. The limit is documented as 1 million inodes per TB. So something must not have gone

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Heavy writes freezing system

2007-01-17 Thread Neil Perrin
Rainer Heilke wrote On 01/17/07 15:44,: It turns out we're probably going to go the UFS/ZFS route, with 4 filesystems (the DB files on UFS with Directio). It seems that the pain of moving from a single-node ASM to a RAC'd ASM is great, and not worth it. The DBA group decided doing the