Unexpected zfs ARC behavior

FF fusionfoto at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 09:00:52 UTC 2014


I'm not sure, but this may be addressed by :

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191510.

On the same system, on a brand new SSD (Intel 320 series, supports TRIM,
973 hours of total run time and no SMARTCTL errors), the l2arc is accruing
some errors and I can't tell if they are inter-related or not.

 sysctl -a |grep l2_
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.evict_l2_cached: 8717673244160
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.evict_l2_eligible: 2307662193664
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.evict_l2_ineligible: 3432677600768
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_hits: 11990587
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_misses: 66503164
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_feeds: 3721611
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_rw_clash: 153
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_read_bytes: 1152794672128
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_bytes: 27096209368064
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_writes_sent: 1741090
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_writes_done: 1741090
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_writes_error: 0
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_writes_hdr_miss: 2479
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_evict_lock_retry: 1149
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_evict_reading: 137
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_free_on_write: 1000507
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_abort_lowmem: 225
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_cksum_bad: 8
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_io_error: 6
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_size: 35261600768
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_asize: 33760987648
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_hdr_size: 58288928
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_compress_successes: 31952645
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_compress_zeros: 903
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_compress_failures: 436119
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_trylock_fail: 2481253
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_passed_headroom: 61954692
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_spa_mismatch: 26664326
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_in_l2: 19967700467
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_io_in_progress: 94722
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_not_cacheable: 11359575294
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_full: 730445
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_buffer_iter: 3721611
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_pios: 1741090
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_buffer_bytes_scanned: 3464594001047552
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_buffer_list_iter: 229359623
kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_write_buffer_list_null_iter: 65007815


Anyway, thanks in advance for any help offered.

Best.


On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, FF <fusionfoto at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, forwarding from -questions.
>
> It looks like the image didn't make it across, so here it is:
>
> http://snag.gy/Ghb7X.jpg
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions, or confirmations that
> somehow this behavior is normal.
>
> --
>
>
> So on a somewhat loaded ZFS file server (all NFS) serving mostly VMs with
> the load steadily increasing over the month (migrated from other
> servers)... the ARC size has unexpectedly dropped (please see attached
> graphic, if it makes through the mailing list server). The system peaks
> around 2,000 NFS IOPS and hasn't exhibited any slow downs. The L2ARC has a
> very low hit rate and prefetch has been turned off to increase the L2ARC
> efficiency... but none of that should really matter as far as I can tell
> since the L1ARC should try to use all the memory it can.
>
>>
>> Some tuning of zfs sysctls (mostly write_boost and write_max) to increase
>> them, but this has since been backed off to default.
>>
>> vmstat -m reports that 24G is dedicated to opensolaris:
>>     solaris 1113433 24565820K       - 6185559839
>> 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096
>>
>> And top reports memory free:
>>
>> last pid: 32075;  load averages:  0.16,  0.13,
>> 0.14                                    up 36+21:44:59  09:16:49
>> 24 processes:  1 running, 23 sleeping
>> CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.6% interrupt, 99.4% idle
>> Mem: 25M Active, 1187M Inact, 26G Wired, 2048K Cache, 1536M Buf, 4160M
>> Free
>> ARC: 14G Total, 1679M MFU, 12G MRU, 28M Anon, 156M Header, 21M Other
>>
>> zfs-stats -a :
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ZFS Subsystem Report                            Sat Sep 27 09:17:07 2014
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> System Information:
>>
>>         Kernel Version:                         902001 (osreldate)
>>         Hardware Platform:                      amd64
>>         Processor Architecture:                 amd64
>>
>>         ZFS Storage pool Version:               5000
>>         ZFS Filesystem Version:                 5
>>
>> FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p10 #0 r270148M: Mon Aug 18 23:14:36 EDT 2014 root
>>  9:17AM  up 36 days, 21:45, 2 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.12, 0.13
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> System Memory:
>>
>>         0.08%   26.22   MiB Active,     3.75%   1.16    GiB Inact
>>         82.36%  25.47   GiB Wired,      0.01%   2.00    MiB Cache
>>         13.80%  4.27    GiB Free,       0.00%   1.03    MiB Gap
>>
>>         Real Installed:                         32.00   GiB
>>         Real Available:                 99.63%  31.88   GiB
>>         Real Managed:                   97.01%  30.93   GiB
>>
>>         Logical Total:                          32.00   GiB
>>         Logical Used:                   83.03%  26.57   GiB
>>         Logical Free:                   16.97%  5.43    GiB
>>
>> Kernel Memory:                                  23.54   GiB
>>         Data:                           99.90%  23.52   GiB
>>         Text:                           0.10%   23.13   MiB
>>
>> Kernel Memory Map:                              29.76   GiB
>>         Size:                           76.40%  22.74   GiB
>>         Free:                           23.60%  7.02    GiB
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ARC Summary: (HEALTHY)
>>         Memory Throttle Count:                  0
>>
>> ARC Misc:
>>         Deleted:                                90.09m
>>         Recycle Misses:                         2.44m
>>         Mutex Misses:                           794.67k
>>         Evict Skips:                            17.90m
>>
>> ARC Size:                               44.78%  13.40   GiB
>>         Target Size: (Adaptive)         44.78%  13.40   GiB
>>         Min Size (Hard Limit):          12.50%  3.74    GiB
>>         Max Size (High Water):          8:1     29.93   GiB
>>
>> ARC Size Breakdown:
>>         Recently Used Cache Size:       86.16%  11.55   GiB
>>         Frequently Used Cache Size:     13.84%  1.85    GiB
>>
>> ARC Hash Breakdown:
>>         Elements Max:                           786.71k
>>         Elements Current:               87.05%  684.85k
>>         Collisions:                             153.35m
>>         Chain Max:                              16
>>         Chains:                                 194.92k
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ARC Efficiency:                                 506.24m
>>         Cache Hit Ratio:                87.56%  443.25m
>>         Cache Miss Ratio:               12.44%  62.99m
>>         Actual Hit Ratio:               80.06%  405.29m
>>
>>         Data Demand Efficiency:         93.92%  372.74m
>>         Data Prefetch Efficiency:       49.49%  69.76m
>>
>>         CACHE HITS BY CACHE LIST:
>>           Anonymously Used:             6.10%   27.05m
>>           Most Recently Used:           31.37%  139.05m
>>           Most Frequently Used:         60.07%  266.24m
>>           Most Recently Used Ghost:     0.80%   3.56m
>>           Most Frequently Used Ghost:   1.66%   7.35m
>>
>>         CACHE HITS BY DATA TYPE:
>>           Demand Data:                  78.98%  350.09m
>>           Prefetch Data:                7.79%   34.53m
>>           Demand Metadata:              12.15%  53.86m
>>           Prefetch Metadata:            1.08%   4.77m
>>
>>         CACHE MISSES BY DATA TYPE:
>>           Demand Data:                  35.95%  22.65m
>>           Prefetch Data:                55.93%  35.23m
>>           Demand Metadata:              4.49%   2.83m
>>           Prefetch Metadata:            3.63%   2.29m
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> <cut>
>>
>> Any suggestions? Is this expected or acceptable behavior?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --
>> FF
>>
>
>
>
> --
> FF
>



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FF


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