[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sudden ZFS performance issue

[wim at vandenberge.us]

"iostat -Exn" reports"Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0" across
the board. Going to try latencytop next. We're not deduping or compressing.

Wim




> On July 5, 2013 at 2:28 PM Lucas Van Tol <catseyev9 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Have you tried looking with 'latencytop'?
> pkg install diagnostic/latencytop
> latencytop
> and arrow over to the zpool process for your data pool?
>
> That may help you track down what is specifically slowing you down; for
> example if you see something about space map loading, you need
> echo 'metaslab_debug/W1' | mdb -kw
> to maintain the space maps in memory; high ZFS ZIL writer means more SSD /
> write logs would be good, etc.
>
> If you are using any 'dedup' ; you may have also just hit whatever limits for
> in-memory de-dup tables (although I dunno what that looks like in latency
> top...).
>
>
> 'iostat -xnz 1' and looking for specific drives with notably longer asvc_t and
> /or %w than others is another easy check with sudden performance drops
> (suggests the system is slowing down for a single bad/dying disk).
>
> -Lucas Van Tol
>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 20:09:45 +0200
> > From: iszczesniak at gmail.com
> > To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sudden ZFS performance issue
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 05/07/2013 17:08, wim at vandenberge.us wrote:
> > >> Good morning,
> > >>
> > >> I have a weird problem with two of the 15+ OpenSolaris storage servers in
> > >> our
> > >> environment. All the Nearline servers are essentially the same.
> > >> Supermicro
> > >> X9DR3-F based server, Dual E5-2609's, 64GB memory, Dual 10Gb SFP+ NICs,
> > >> LSI
> > >> 9200-8e HBA, Supermicro CSE-826E26-R1200LPB storage arrays and Seagate
> > >> enterprise 2TB SATA or SAS drives (not mixed within a server). Root,
> > >> l2ARC and
> > >> ZIL are all on Intel SSD (SLC series 313 for ZIL, MLC 520 for L2ARC and
> > >> MLC 330
> > >> for boot)
> > >>
> > >> The volumes are built out of 9 drive Z1 groups, ashift is set to 9 (which
> > >> is
> > >> supposed to appropiate for the enterprise seagates). The pools are large
> > >> (120-130TB) but are only between 27 and 32% full. Each server serves an
> > >> iSCSI
> > >> (Comstar) and an CIFS (in kernel server) volume of the same pool. I
> > >> realize this
> > >> is not optimal from a recovery/resilver/rebuild standpoint but the
> > >> servers are
> > >> replicated and the data is easily rebuildable.
> > >>
> > >> Initially these servers did great for several months, while certainly no
> > >> speed
> > >> demons, 300+ MB/sec for sequential read/writes was not a problem. Several
> > >> weeks
> > >> ago, literally overnight, replication times went through the roof for one
> > >> server. Simple testing showed that reading from the pool would no longer
> > >> go over
> > >> 25MB/s. Even a scrub that used to run at 400+ MB/sec is now crawling
> > >> along at
> > >> below 40MB/s.
> > >>
> > >> Sometime yesterday the second server started to exhibit the exact same
> > >> behaviour. This one is used even less (it's our D2D2T server) and data is
> > >> written to it at night and read during the day to be written to tape.
> > >>
> > >> I've exhausted all I know and I'm at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas
> > >> of what
> > >> to look at, or do any obvious reasons for this behaviour jump out from
> > >> the
> > >> configuration above?
> > >
> > > Isn't iostat -Exn reporting some transport errors? Smells like a drive
> > > gone bad and forcing retries, which would cause about a 10x decrease in
> > > performance. Just a guess, though.
> >
> > Why should a retry require a 10x decrease in performance? A proper
> > design would surely do retries in parallel to other operations
> > (Reiser4 and btrfs do it) up to a certain amount of
> > failures-in-flight.
> >
> > Irek
> >
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