zfs arc and amount of wired memory

[Alexander Leidinger]

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Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> hat geschrieben:
On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Artem Belevich wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
> <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:11:36AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> ...
>>> ARC Size:
>>>          Current Size:             1769 MB (arcsize)
>>>          Target Size (Adaptive):   512 MB (c)
>>>          Min Size (Hard Limit):    512 MB (zfs_arc_min)
>>>          Max Size (Hard Limit):    3584 MB (zfs_arc_max)
>>> 
>>> The target size is going down to the min size and after few more
>>> days, the system is so slow, that I must reboot the machine. Then it
>>> is running fine for about 107 days and then it all repeat again.
>>> 
>>> You can see more on MRTG graphs
>>> http://freebsd.quip.cz/ext/2012/2012-02-08-kiwi-mrtg-12-15/
>>> You can see links to other useful informations on top of the page
>>> (arc_summary, top, dmesg, fs usage, loader.conf)
>>> 
>>> There you can see nightly backups (higher CPU load started at
>>> 01:13), otherwise the machine is idle.
>>> 
>>> It coresponds with ARC target size lowering in last 5 days
>>> http://freebsd.quip.cz/ext/2012/2012-02-08-kiwi-mrtg-12-15/local_zfs_arcstats_size.html
>>> 
>>> And with ARC metadata cache overflowing the limit in last 5 days
>>> http://freebsd.quip.cz/ext/2012/2012-02-08-kiwi-mrtg-12-15/local_zfs_vfs_meta.html
>>> 
>>> I don't know what's going on and I don't know if it is something
>>> know / fixed in newer releases. We are running a few more ZFS
>>> systems on 8.2 without this issue. But those systems are in
>>> different roles.
>> 
>> This sounds like the... damn, what is it called... some kind of internal
>> "counter" or "ticks" thing within the ZFS code that was discovered to
>> only begin happening after a certain period of time (which correlated to
>> some number of days, possibly 107).  I'm sorry that I can't be more
>> specific, but it's been discussed heavily on the lists in the past, and
>> fixes for all of that were committed to RELENG_8.  I wish I could
>> remember the name of the function or macro or variable name it pertained
>> to, something like LTHAW or TLOCK or something like that.  I would say
>> "I don't know why I can't remember", but I do know why I can't remember:
>> because I gave up trying to track all of these problems.
>> 
>> Does someone else remember this issue?  CC'ing Martin who might remember
>> for certain.
> 
> It's LBOLT. :-)
> 
> And there was more than one related integer overflow. One of them
> manifested itself as L2ARC feeding thread hogging CPU time after about
> a month of uptime. Another one caused issue with ARC reclaim after 107
> days. See more details in this thread:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-May/011584.html

This would be an excellent piece of information to have on one of the ZFS
wiki pages.  The 107 day issue exists post-8.2, correct?  Anyone on this 
cc: list have permissions to edit those pages?

Thanks,

Charles

> 
> --Artem
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