similar to: Why does ARC grow above hard limit?

I am trying to see how ZFS behaves under resource starvation - corner cases in embedded environments. I see some very strange behavior. Any help/explanation would really be appreciated. My current setup is : OpenSolaris 111b (iSCSI seems to be broken in 132 - unable to get multiple connections/mutlipathing) iSCSI Storage Array that is capable of 20 MB/s random writes @ 4k and 70 MB random reads

Was wondering if anyone can see any issues with the ARC in the following output? bash-3.00# ./arc_summary.pl System Memory: Physical RAM: 6023 MB Free Memory : 784 MB LotsFree: 90 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): ARC Size: Current Size: 1159 MB (arcsize) Target Size (Adaptive): 2106 MB (c) Min Size (Hard Limit): 624 MB (zfs_arc_min) Max Size (Hard Limit): 4999 MB (zfs_arc_max) ARC Size

Was wondering if anyone of you see any issues with the following in Solaris 10 u8 ZFS? System Memory: Physical RAM: 11042 MB Free Memory : 5250 MB LotsFree: 168 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): ARC Size: Current Size: 4309 MB (arcsize) Target Size (Adaptive): 10018 MB (c) Min Size (Hard Limit): 1252 MB (zfs_arc_min) Max Size (Hard Limit): 10018 MB (zfs_arc_max) ARC Size Breakdown: Most Recently

I''m seeing a performance anomaly where opening a large file (but doing *no* I/O to it) seems to cause (or correlates to) a significant performance hit on a mirrored ZFS filesystem. Unintuitively, if I disable zfs_prefetch_disable, I don''t see the performance degradation. It doesn''t make sense that this would help unless there is some cache/VM pollution resulting

Hi there. I just got a new Adaptec RAID 51645 controller in because the old (other type) was malfunctioning. It is paired with 16 Seagate 15k5 disks, of which two are used with hardware RAID 1 for OpenSolaris snv_98, and the rest is configured as striped mirrors as a zpool. I created a zfs filesystem on this pool with a blocksize of 8K. This server has 64GB of memory and will be running

Would someone "in the know" be willing to write up (preferably blog) definitive definitions/explanations of all the arcstats provided via kstat? I''m struggling with proper interpretation of certain values, namely "p", "memory_throttle_count", and the mru/mfu+ghost hit vs demand/prefetch hit counters. I think I''ve got it figured out, but

Has anyone else noticed a significant zfs performance deterioration when running recent opensolaris bits? My 32-bit / 768 MB Toshiba Tecra S1 notebook was able to do a full opensolaris release build in ~ 4 hours 45 minutes (gcc shadow compilation disabled; using an lzjb compressed zpool / zfs on a single notebook hdd p-ata drive). After upgrading to 2007-05-25 opensolaris release bits

Hello all, I have a question. Below are two ::memstat outputs about 5 days apart. The interesting thing is the "anonymous" memory shows 2GB, though the two major hogs of that memory (two MySQL instances) claim to be consuming about 6.2GB (checked via pmap). Also, it seems like the ARC keeps creeping the kernel memory over the 4GB limit I set for the ARC (zfs_arc_max). What I was also,

Greetings Gentlemen, I''m currently testing a new setup for a ZFS based storage system with dedup enabled. The system is setup on OI 148, which seems quite stable w/ dedup enabled (compared to the OpenSolaris snv_136 build I used before). One issue I ran into, however, is quite baffling: With iozone set to 32 threads, ZFS''s ARC seems to consume all available memory, making

What have I done wrong? I installed an xp (service pack 2) domU using the virt-install example from the man page, on a zfs volume. I noticed this behavior on build 129, and I replicated the behavior on build 130: root@opensolaris:/tmp# virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.7.0 Using library: libvir 0.7.0 Using API: Xen 3.0.1 Running hypervisor: Xen 3.4 root@opensolaris:/tmp#

Hi all, I have exchanged my Dell R610 in favor of a Sun Fire 4170 M2 which has 32 GB RAM installed. I am running Sol11Expr on this host and I use it to primarily serve Netatalk AFP shares. From day one, I have noticed that the amount of free RAM decereased and along with that decrease the overall performance of ZFS decreased as well. Now, since I am still quite a Solaris newbie, I seem to

I have a semi-theoretical question about the following code in arc.c, arc_reclaim_needed() function: /* * take ''desfree'' extra pages, so we reclaim sooner, rather than later */ extra = desfree; /* * check that we''re out of range of the pageout scanner. It starts to * schedule paging if freemem is less than lotsfree and needfree. * lotsfree is the high-water mark

Hello. We''re currently using a Sun Blade1000 (2x750MHz, 1G ram, 2x160MB/s mpt scsi buses, skge GigE network) as a NFS backend with ZFS for distribution of free software like Debian (cdimage.debian.org, ftp.se.debian.org) and have run into some performance issues. We are running SX snv_48 and have run with a raidz2 with 7x300G for a while now, just added another 7x300G raidz2 today but

Well I have determined that everytime someone logs in/logs out of a windows box in our lab *ALL* of the files in "My Directory" are copied from/to the file server to the local client. Needless to say this is retarded and needs to stop. The local sys admin needs to perform some windows voodoo to redirect this directory. Still this brings the mystery as to why smbd would take up so much

Hi All, I am running nevada 79 BFU''ed to 82. The machine is a Ultra 20 with 4GB memory. I have several Windows XP domU''s configured and registered. When ever I try to start the fourth domain I get an out of memory exception: Not enough memory is available, and dom0 cannot be shrunk any further Each of my domains only uses 256 so I thought there would be sufficient memory

Hello, I read, and know, that ZFS + XEN are not works well together. (I''ve only 512MB for Dom0). How I can disable/off all ZFS stuff to have more usable memory to Dom0. Regards Maciej

Running an mmap-intensive workload on ZFS on a X4500, Solaris 10 11/06 (update 3). All file IO is mmap(file), read memory segment, unmap, close. Tweaked the arc size down via mdb to 1GB. I used that value because c_min was also 1GB, and I was not sure if c_max could be larger than c_min....Anyway, I set c_max to 1GB. After a workload run....: > arc::print -tad { . . . ffffffffc02e29e8

> http://blogs.sun.com/ptelles/entry/sun_xvm_hypervisor_ > part_i Hello, I can''t get this to work. My pc just reboots after "Syncing filesystem" when I try to boot into xVM Hypervisor. I have a clean install of OpenSolaris 2008.11. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

I have a xVm b75 server and use zfs for storage (zfs root mirror and a raid-z2 datapool.) I see everywhere that it is recommended to have a lot of memory on a zfs file server... but I also need to relinquish a lot of my memory to be used by the domUs. What would a good value for dom0_mem on a box with 4 gig of ram?

I have a xVm b75 server and use zfs for storage (zfs root mirror and a raid-z2 datapool.) I see everywhere that it is recommended to have a lot of memory on a zfs file server... but I also need to relinquish a lot of my memory to be used by the domUs. What would a good value for dom0_mem on a box with 4 gig of ram?