Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily > snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest > snapshots and creates new ones

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:23:10PM -0800, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 03/08/10 12:43, Tomas Ögren wrote: > So we tried adding 2x 4GB USB sticks (Kingston Data > >Traveller Mini Slim) as metadata L2ARC and that seems to have pushed the > >snapshot times down to about 30 seconds. > > Out of curiosit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:18:34PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: > > "gm" == Gary Mills writes: > > gm> destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both > gm> recursively. > > I'd be curious if you try taking the same snapshots non-recursively > instead, does the pause go away?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 March, 2010 - Bill Sommerfeld sent me these 0,4K bytes: > On 03/08/10 12:43, Tomas Ögren wrote: > So we tried adding 2x 4GB USB sticks (Kingston Data >> Traveller Mini Slim) as metadata L2ARC and that seems to have pushed the >> snapshot times down to about 30 seconds. > > Out of curiosity,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 03/08/10 12:43, Tomas Ögren wrote: So we tried adding 2x 4GB USB sticks (Kingston Data Traveller Mini Slim) as metadata L2ARC and that seems to have pushed the snapshot times down to about 30 seconds. Out of curiosity, how much physical memory does this system have?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 March, 2010 - Miles Nordin sent me these 1,8K bytes: > > "gm" == Gary Mills writes: > > gm> destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both > gm> recursively. > > I'd be curious if you try taking the same snapshots non-recursively > instead, does the pause go away?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-08 Thread Miles Nordin
> "gm" == Gary Mills writes: gm> destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both gm> recursively. I'd be curious if you try taking the same snapshots non-recursively instead, does the pause go away? Because recursive snapshots are special: they're supposed to atomically s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-05 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote: > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily > snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest > snapshots and creates new ones

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:51:13PM -0300, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Ian Collins <[1]...@ianshome.com> >wrote: > >Gary Mills wrote: > > We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. > It uses six ZFS filesystems bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: > >> We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. >> It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily >> snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest >> snapshots a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Gary Mills wrote: We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both recursively. For about four minutes ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Ian Collins
Gary Mills wrote: We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both recursively. For about four minutes ther

[zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both recursively. For about four minutes thereafter, the load ave