Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-12 Thread Dickon Hood
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:27:56 +0100, Roch - PAE wrote: : O_DSYNC was good idea. Then if you have recent Nevada you : can use the separate intent log (log keyword in zpool : create) to absord thosewrites without having splindle : competition with the reads. Your write workload

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-12 Thread Roch - PAE
Dickon Hood writes: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 13:14:56 +, I wrote: > : On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:58:17 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > : : Dickon Hood wrote: > : : >On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > : : >: Dickon Hood wrote: > > : : >: >We're seeing the w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-11 Thread Dickon Hood
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 13:14:56 +, I wrote: : On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:58:17 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : : Dickon Hood wrote: : : >On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : : >: Dickon Hood wrote: : : >: >We're seeing the writes stall in favour of the reads. For

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-08 Thread Dickon Hood
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:27:25 -0800, Anton B. Rang wrote: : > I was under the impression that real-time processes essentially trump all : > others, and I'm surprised by this behaviour; I had a dozen or so RT-processes : > sat waiting for disc for about 20s. : Process priorities on Solaris affe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Anton B. Rang
> I was under the impression that real-time processes essentially trump all > others, and I'm surprised by this behaviour; I had a dozen or so RT-processes > sat waiting for disc for about 20s. Process priorities on Solaris affect CPU scheduling, but not (currently) I/O scheduling nor memory usag

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Dickon Hood
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:58:17 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : Dickon Hood wrote: : >On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : >: Dickon Hood wrote: : >: >We've got an interesting application which involves recieving lots of : >: >multicast groups, and writing the data to d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dickon Hood wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > : Dickon Hood wrote: > : >We've got an interesting application which involves recieving lots of > : >multicast groups, and writing the data to disc as a cache. We're > : >currently using ZFS for this cache, as we

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Dickon Hood
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:38:11 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: : Dickon Hood wrote: : >We've got an interesting application which involves recieving lots of : >multicast groups, and writing the data to disc as a cache. We're : >currently using ZFS for this cache, as we're potentially dealing with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dickon Hood wrote: > We've got an interesting application which involves recieving lots of > multicast groups, and writing the data to disc as a cache. We're > currently using ZFS for this cache, as we're potentially dealing with a > couple of TB at a time. > > The threads writing to the filesyst

[zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-07 Thread Dickon Hood
We've got an interesting application which involves recieving lots of multicast groups, and writing the data to disc as a cache. We're currently using ZFS for this cache, as we're potentially dealing with a couple of TB at a time. The threads writing to the filesystem have real-time SCHED_FIFO pr