Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting George Kontostanos gkontos.m...@gmail.com (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:57:49 +0300): I thought that jails would be a good candidate for dedup. So far I am using it without any issues in my /usr/src and /virtualBox directories. No idea about your problem, but ezjail is already doing

Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-30 Thread George Kontostanos
As far as I am aware ezjail has the option to use compression and disable access time updates. ezjail_zfs_properties=-o compression=lzjb -o atime=off In my case the dedup option was turned on only in the basejail causing the system to temporarily freeze. Once the dedup option was removed

Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-30 Thread Sean M. Collins
Can you attach the output from zdb -DD zhome ? -- Sean Collins Core IT Pro, LLC www.coreitpro.com ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-30 Thread George Kontostanos
Very useful thank you! DDT-sha256-zap-duplicate: 177 entries, size 9493 on disk, 12010 in core DDT-sha256-zap-unique: 20016 entries, size 1232 on disk, 1524 in core DDT histogram (aggregated over all DDTs): bucket allocated referenced __

Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-29 Thread Sean M. Collins
How much memory do you have in the system? Any L2ARC devices? Depending on the amount of memory in your box, it could be that ddt is spilling over ARC? -- Sean Collins Core IT Pro, LLC www.coreitpro.com ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ZFS dedup and temporary freeze

2011-03-29 Thread George Kontostanos
The system has 4Gs of RAM. I don''t use any devices for L2ARC and my tuning is like this: vm.kmem_size=3072M vfs.zfs.arc_max=2048M I had my eyes on the memory during the whole procedure and things looked normal. Thanks On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Sean M. Collins s...@coreitpro.comwrote: