Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I am having a slight issue (and judging by Google results, similar issues have been seen by other FreeBSD and Solaris/OpenSolaris users) with writes choking the read IO. The issue I am having is described pretty well here: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: I had similar problems on a 32GB Solaris server at work. Note that with compression enabled, the entire system pauses while it compresses the outgoing block of data. It's just a fraction of a second, but long enough for end-users to complain about bad per

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 24), Bob Friesenhahn said: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: > > Has anyone done any extensive testing of the effects of tuning > > vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending on this issue? Is there some universally > > recommended value beyond the default 35? Anything else I should

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: Has anyone done any extensive testing of the effects of tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending on this issue? Is there some universally recommended value beyond the default 35? Anything else I should be looking at? The vdev.max_pending value is primarily used to

tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello I am having a slight issue (and judging by Google results, similar issues have been seen by other FreeBSD and Solaris/OpenSolaris users) with writes choking the read IO. The issue I am having is described pretty well here: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106453 It seems that