In message <[email protected]
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, Matthew Macy writes:
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 11:03 Cy Schubert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In message <[email protected]>, Jakob
> > Alvermar
> > k writes:

> > >
> > > I will test the patch below and report back.
> >
> > Agreed, though IMO your workload and your environment need to be
> > understood first. What concerns me about the patch is what impact will
> > it have on other workloads. Not evicting data and only metadata could
> > impact buildworld -DNO_CLEAN for example. I do a -DNO_CLEAN
> > buildworlds, sometimes -DWORLDFAST. Adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit to
> > the same value as vfs.zfs.arc_max improved my buildworld/installworld
> > performance. In addition disabling atime for the ZFS dataset containing
> > /usr/obj also improved buildworld/installworld performance by reducing
> > unnecessary (IMO) metadata writes. I think evicting metadata only might
> > cause a new set of problems for different workloads. (Maybe this should
> > be a sysctl?)
> >
>
> Mark's suggested change would just restore the default behavior from before
> balanced pruning was imported. Balanced pruning is dependent on code that
> didn't exist in FreeBSD - unfortunately when I did the import I did not
> pull in all the dependencies. Mid freeze, the least disruptive path is to
> disable the new behavior. Post branch we can restore it as a default,
> possibly contingent on the amount of memory in the system. There is
> precedent for this with prefetch.

Ok.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
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