On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:47:10AM +1000, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:05:47PM -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
>> I've 8G ram which should be heaps. limiting l2arc to 1G didn't help
>> either.
>l2arc or arc? if l2arc, 1G isn't really worth bothering with and may
>even hurt performance.

<looks through command history>
echo "options zfs zfs_arc_max=$((2*1024*1024*1024))" > /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf

>> on my intel SSD, ZFS is noticably slower than ext4. part of it's
>> because of ZFS's poor integration with linux's virtual memory system
>> and both sets of caches clearly fighting each other,
>have you tried setting zfs_arc_min = zfs_arc_max?  that should stop
>ARC from releasing memory for linux buffers to use.

is that what most folks do?

as the SSD is fast at large reads (500MB/s), I could also just cache
metadata and not data. would that make sense do you think?

>The most likely cause is that ext4 has excellent SSD TRIM support but
>ZFS on linux doesn't.  There's a patch that's (finally!) going to be
>merged "soon":
>https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/3656

neat!

cheers,
robin
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