I have a 5 drive raidz2 pool which I have a iscsi share on. While backing up a MacOS drive to it I noticed some very strange access patterns, and wanted to know if what I am seeing is normal, or not.
There are times when all five drives are accessed equally, and there are times when only three of them are seeing any load. Is this normal? A side effect of the iscsi? A problem? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a SunOS home-sun 5.11 snv_101a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs get all main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac type volume - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac creation Sun Nov 16 10:54 2008 - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac used 245G - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac available 2.16T - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac referenced 245G - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac compressratio 1.04x - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac reservation none default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac volsize 1T - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac volblocksize 8K - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac checksum on default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac compression on local main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac readonly off default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac shareiscsi on inherited from main_pool/iscsi main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac copies 1 default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac refreservation none default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac primarycache all default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac secondarycache all default main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac usedbysnapshots 0 - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac usedbydataset 245G - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac usedbychildren 0 - main_pool/iscsi/cdm_mac usedbyrefreservation 0 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zpool iostat -v main_pool 3 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- main_pool 852G 3.70T 280 967 2.93M 7.73M raidz2 852G 3.70T 280 967 2.93M 7.73M c5t5d0 - - 142 377 712K 2.69M c5t3d0 - - 142 377 714K 2.69M c5t4d0 - - 143 376 714K 2.69M c5t2d0 - - 145 377 712K 2.69M c5t1d0 - - 144 378 713K 2.69M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- main_pool 852G 3.70T 361 1.30K 2.78M 10.1M raidz2 852G 3.70T 361 1.30K 2.78M 10.1M c5t5d0 - - 180 502 1.25M 3.57M c5t3d0 - - 205 330 1.30M 2.73M c5t4d0 - - 239 489 1.43M 2.81M c5t2d0 - - 205 17 1.25M 26.1K c5t1d0 - - 248 13 1.41M 25.1K ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- main_pool 852G 3.70T 10 2.02K 77.7K 15.8M raidz2 852G 3.70T 10 2.02K 77.7K 15.8M c5t5d0 - - 2 921 109K 6.52M c5t3d0 - - 9 691 108K 5.63M c5t4d0 - - 9 962 105K 5.97M c5t2d0 - - 9 1.30K 167K 8.50M c5t1d0 - - 2 1.23K 150K 8.54M ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- main_pool 852G 3.70T 306 1.11K 2.36M 8.61M raidz2 852G 3.70T 306 1.11K 2.36M 8.61M c5t5d0 - - 216 332 1.27M 2.06M c5t3d0 - - 198 562 1.21M 2.94M c5t4d0 - - 173 437 1.18M 2.52M c5t2d0 - - 160 13 1.06M 26.1K c5t1d0 - - 168 15 1.08M 26.9K ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iostat -Xn 3 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c4t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.2 0 0 c5t0d0 142.8 373.3 704.1 2719.5 4.1 1.4 8.0 2.8 19 21 c5t1d0 143.9 373.0 703.6 2719.7 3.9 1.6 7.6 3.0 18 21 c5t2d0 140.9 372.4 705.1 2719.7 12.2 6.0 23.8 11.8 56 60 c5t3d0 141.4 371.8 705.4 2720.0 12.1 6.3 23.6 12.4 57 61 c5t4d0 140.6 372.4 702.8 2719.7 12.1 6.5 23.5 12.6 57 61 c5t5d0 5.0 0.9 355.5 3.7 0.1 0.0 16.0 1.8 1 1 c3t0d0 2.3 2.6 176.4 110.4 0.1 0.0 18.4 1.8 1 1 c3t1d0 1.8 2.2 140.0 109.9 0.1 0.0 31.7 1.9 1 1 c3t2d0 1.4 1.9 112.4 109.4 0.2 0.0 47.7 2.0 1 1 c3t3d0 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c4t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c5t0d0 1.0 1071.5 43.9 8101.0 14.4 0.4 13.4 0.4 43 43 c5t1d0 1.3 1219.6 44.6 8144.5 15.6 0.5 12.8 0.4 47 47 c5t2d0 0.0 962.5 0.0 6174.6 34.0 1.0 35.3 1.0 100 100 c5t3d0 0.0 591.4 0.0 3460.8 34.0 1.0 57.5 1.7 100 100 c5t4d0 0.0 846.8 0.0 5818.8 32.0 3.0 37.8 3.5 100 100 c5t5d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t1d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t2d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t3d0 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c4t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c5t0d0 13.0 0.0 39.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0 1 c5t1d0 0.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 0 c5t2d0 15.3 300.7 100.3 2311.1 10.7 0.4 33.9 1.1 34 35 c5t3d0 0.0 514.4 0.0 3572.0 34.0 1.0 66.1 1.9 100 100 c5t4d0 14.0 360.4 76.0 2705.1 16.8 1.6 44.9 4.4 53 55 c5t5d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t1d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t2d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t3d0 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c4t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c5t0d0 205.2 20.2 1295.9 56.7 0.4 0.1 1.7 0.7 14 15 c5t1d0 161.9 20.9 1186.6 58.1 0.2 0.2 1.1 1.3 9 13 c5t2d0 159.3 18.3 1080.3 45.8 0.2 0.1 1.1 0.8 9 15 c5t3d0 161.5 301.9 1167.0 1477.7 17.4 0.7 37.5 1.4 64 65 c5t4d0 201.4 18.9 1245.0 46.2 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.9 8 17 c5t5d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t1d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t2d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t3d0 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c4t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c5t0d0 0.7 1300.0 23.0 8263.1 16.7 0.5 12.9 0.4 50 50 c5t1d0 1.0 1124.4 45.2 8353.2 14.6 0.4 13.0 0.4 44 44 c5t2d0 0.0 1021.1 0.0 6676.0 33.9 1.0 33.2 1.0 100 100 c5t3d0 0.0 1017.3 0.0 6769.4 33.9 1.0 33.4 1.0 100 100 c5t4d0 0.0 769.6 0.0 5308.2 33.9 1.0 44.1 1.3 100 100 c5t5d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t0d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t1d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t2d0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 c3t3d0 Thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss