Re: [zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Joe Little
On Nov 26, 2007 7:57 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Little wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2007 7:00 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I would expect such iostat output from a device which can handle > >> only a single queued I/O to the device (eg. IDE driver) and an

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Richard Elling
Joe Little wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 7:00 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would expect such iostat output from a device which can handle >> only a single queued I/O to the device (eg. IDE driver) and an I/O >> is stuck. There are 3 more I/Os in the wait queue waiting for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Csanady
On Nov 26, 2007 8:41 PM, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was playing with a Gigabyte i-RAM card and found out it works great > to improve overall performance when there are a lot of writes of small > files over NFS to such a ZFS pool. > > However, I noted a frequent situation in periods o

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Joe Little
On Nov 26, 2007 7:00 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would expect such iostat output from a device which can handle > only a single queued I/O to the device (eg. IDE driver) and an I/O > is stuck. There are 3 more I/Os in the wait queue waiting for the > active I/O to complete.

Re: [zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Richard Elling
I would expect such iostat output from a device which can handle only a single queued I/O to the device (eg. IDE driver) and an I/O is stuck. There are 3 more I/Os in the wait queue waiting for the active I/O to complete. The %w and %b are measured as the percent of time during which an I/O was i

[zfs-discuss] odd slog behavior on B70

2007-11-26 Thread Joe Little
I was playing with a Gigabyte i-RAM card and found out it works great to improve overall performance when there are a lot of writes of small files over NFS to such a ZFS pool. However, I noted a frequent situation in periods of long writes over NFS of small files. Here's a snippet of iostat during