Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden and Dramatic Performance Drop-off

2012-10-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Sounds similar to the problem discussed here: http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/05/adjusting-drive-timeouts-with-mdb-on-solaris-or-openindiana/ Check 'iostat -xn' and see if one or more disks is stuck at 100%. -Chip On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Cindy Swearingen < cindy.swearin...@or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden and Dramatic Performance Drop-off

2012-10-04 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Charles, Yes, a faulty or failing disk can kill performance. I would see if FMA has generated any faults: # fmadm faulty Or, if any of the devices are collecting errors: # fmdump -eV | more Thanks, Cindy On 10/04/12 11:22, Knipe, Charles wrote: Hey guys, I’ve run into another ZFS perf

[zfs-discuss] Sudden and Dramatic Performance Drop-off

2012-10-04 Thread Knipe, Charles
Hey guys, I've run into another ZFS performance disaster that I was hoping someone might be able to give me some pointers on resolving. Without any significant change in workload write performance has dropped off dramatically. Based on previous experience we tried deleting some files to free