Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with l2arc in 2009.06

2009-06-18 Thread Rob Logan
correct ratio of arc to l2arc? from http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/l2arc_screenshots It costs some DRAM to reference the L2ARC, at a rate proportional to record size. For example, it currently takes about 15 Gbytes of DRAM to reference 600 Gbytes of L2ARC - at an 8 Kbyte ZFS record size.

Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with l2arc in 2009.06

2009-06-18 Thread Ethan Erchinger
correct ratio of arc to l2arc? from http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/l2arc_screenshots Thanks Rob. Hmm...that ratio isn't awesome. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with l2arc in 2009.06

2009-06-18 Thread Richard Elling
Ethan Erchinger wrote: correct ratio of arc to l2arc? from http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/l2arc_screenshots Thanks Rob. Hmm...that ratio isn't awesome. TANSTAAFL A good SWAG is about 200 bytes for L2ARC directory in the ARC for each record in the L2ARC. So if your recordsize

[zfs-discuss] problems with l2arc in 2009.06

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Erchinger
Hi all, Since we've started running 2009.06 on a few servers we seem to be hitting a problem with l2arc that causes it to stop receiving evicted arc pages. Has anyone else seen this kind of problem? The filesystem contains about 130G of compressed (lzjb) data, and looks like: $ zpool status -v

Re: [zfs-discuss] problems with l2arc in 2009.06

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Erchinger
This is a mysql database server, so if you are wondering about the smallish arc size, it's being artificially limited by set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x8000 in /etc/system, so that the majority of ram can be allocated to InnoDb. I was told offline that it's likely because my arc size has been