On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:39:28PM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> > Rather than monitoring fullness, I'd suggest you look at the datarate to the
> > slog device.
> 
> That seems very imprecise.   If I'm moving data to SLOG at 100MB/s does
> that mean that 32GB is sufficient or not... it suggests some prior
> wisdom and experience.

Given that data in the slog is only live for the 5-10 seconds I mentioned
before, a datarate of 100MB/s suggests that you're going to have on the
order of 1GB in use. Our experience with the Sun Storage 7000 Series has
been that 8-10GB suffices.

> Thus, the following logical question would be: what is the behavior of a
> full SLOG?  Is there any type of message sent to syslog or way by which
> I could use DTrace to figure out if this was the case?

I don't know. You should ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adam

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Adam Leventhal, Fishworks                     http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
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