Some comments on ZFS
Gary Jennejohn
garyj at jennejohn.org
Tue Apr 17 11:43:19 UTC 2007
Robert Watson writes:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> > Joerg t wrote:
> >>> There is something weird - Just ran same test again to see whether it was
>
> >>> a fluke - it still take 1h12 - however I saw the oppersite of Joerg. The
> >>> "systat -vm" Freemem was permently on 2,2GB - this on a 4GB system that
> >>> normally shows a 1,2GB - or less after a buildworld.
> >>
> >>> hmm. Pawel are there tests that can help?
> >>
> >> also how can we determine the real memory consumption by zfs,arc and his
> >> vfs cache share ?
> >>
> >> how can we precisely instrument zfs ?
> >
> > The "vmstat -m" will give you precise breakdown of kernel memory usage.
>
> You'll also want to use "vmstat -z". "-m" captures memory allocated by
> kernel malloc(9), which is used for variable-sized objects, or objects that
> are irregularly allocated. "-z" captures memory allocated by the kernel zone
>
> allocator, used for regularly sized and frequently allocated objects. Small
> allocations in malloc(9) are actually allocated via fixed size memory buckets
>
> in the zone allocator, so if looking at "-m" as well, ignore zones who's name
> s
> consist solely of a number (i.e., "16", which is the 16-byte bucket).
>
Interestingly enough, I see less memory pressure since switching to ZFS.
But I'm not using RAIDZ. Previously ``make buildworld'' would use much
more memory, probably for buffer caching. It looks like ZFS doesn't use
nearly as much buffer cache as UFS (which may not be a good thing).
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