Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Got me wondering: how many reads of a block from spinning rust suffice for it to ultimately get into L2ARC? Just one so it gets into a recent-read list of the ARC and then expires

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-26 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/26/2012 01:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Got me wondering: how many reads of a block from spinning rust suffice for it to ultimately

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/26/2012 01:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Got me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-25 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-11 16:29, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in ARC, but that is clearly not the case, since it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On 9/25/2012 3:38 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-09-11 16:29, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in ARC,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/25/2012 09:38 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-09-11 16:29, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 04:06 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Thanks a lot for clarifying how this works. You're very welcome. Since I'm quite happy having an SSD in my workstation, I will need to purchase another SSD :) I'm wondering if it makes more sense to buy two SSDs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread James H
Dan, If you're not already familiar with it, I find the following command useful. It shows the realtime total read commands, number hitting/missing ARC, number hitting missing L2ARC, breakdown of MRU/MFU etc. arcstat_v2.pl -f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in ARC, but that is clearly not the case, since it WAS gradually filling up the cache device.  When things become colder in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan Swartzendruber My first thought was everything is hitting in ARC, but that is clearly not the case, since it WAS gradually filling up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Of James H Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:09 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC Dan, If you're not already familiar with it, I find the following command useful. It shows the realtime total read commands, number hitting/missing ARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/11/2012 03:32 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I think you may have a point. I'm also inclined to enable prefetch caching per Saso's comment, since I don't have massive throughput - latency is more important to me. I meant to say the exact opposite: enable prefetch caching only if your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 03:32 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I think you may have a point. I'm also inclined to enable prefetch caching per Saso's comment, since I don't have massive throughput - latency is more important to me. I meant to say

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/11/2012 03:41 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: LOL, I actually was unclear not you. I understood what you were saying, sorry for being unclear. I have 4 disks in raid10, so my max random read throughput is theoretically somewhat faster than the L2ARC device, but I never really do that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:52 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 03:41 PM, Dan Swartzendruber

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/11/2012 04:06 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Thanks a lot for clarifying how this works. You're very welcome. Since I'm quite happy having an SSD in my workstation, I will need to purchase another SSD :) I'm wondering if it makes more sense to buy two SSDs of half the size (e.g.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:12 AM To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: 'James H'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC On 09/11/2012 04:06 PM, Dan Swartzendruber