On Nov 14, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Kinney <andykin...@advantagecom.net> wrote:

> Richard Elling via illumos-discuss wrote:
>>> Is there a known reason why I'm seeing double writes to the slog? Am I 
>>> alone or are others also seeing the same data amplification for sync writes 
>>> with a slog?
>> 
>> You are seeing allocations, not the same thing as writes. zpool iostat is 
>> not the best tool
>> for understanding performance, for this and other reasons. What do you 
>> measure at the
>> device itself?
> 
> 
> Fair enough. What would be the best way to measure the quantity of data 
> actually written to the device?

Most commonly used is:
        iostat -x
or 
        iostat -xn

> 
> Obviously, I know what dd did and I can see what landed on the pool. I'm just 
> unsure how to measure how much was written to the slog if it's not 
> represented by the "allocation".

zilstat will show you the difference between blocks allocated and bytes 
written, but it doesn't
show what is put on a specific disk because it measures ZIL activity, not disk 
activity.
 -- richard



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