Questions tagged [zfs-l2arc]
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zfs: flush cache without exporting
For testing I need zfs' cache to be cold.
I can flush caching from the pool by removing the cache disks, exporting and importing the pool. This gives the effect I want. But would really like not to ...
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ZFS l2arc does not warm up
My setup has 256 GB of RAM, of which 200 GB are dedicated to arc, and 2 SSDs for l2arc. It's being up since several days and steadily serving files to many clients, yet it seems that the l2arc is ...
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AMD Optane alternative
I want to have an Optane features with my Ryzen build: high TBW and high I/O. Disk space irrelevant (like MEMPEK1W064GA, 64GB would be enough for me). And it would be nice if I can utilize the full ...
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Cannot re-add cache device to zpool
I have a cache device that fell out of the zfs array because of errors. Im pretty sure it was something i did - messing with cabling or something. It checks out fine, plus its just a cache device. ...
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ZFS L2ARC at no expense [closed]
I recently upgraded my workstation's SSDs, so now I have 2x256GB SSDs laying around. I am considering to use them as L2ARC disks on my NAS.
However my NAS has only 12GB of RAM and 8TB worth of disk ...
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Diagnosize ZFS cache needs
I have a peculiar load on a machine that is limited by disk IO, mostly reads.
The bulk of the IO happens on slow network attached disk that are formated with ZFS.
Using iostat I can clearly see that ...
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Is ZFS L2ARC required if primary data is already on SSD?
I'm trying to tune ZFS on Linux for my workload (Postgres and a fileserver on the same physical machine [1]), and wanted to understand if I really need L2ARC, or not.
If the information given at ...
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Offline uncorrectable sectors in SSDs being used for ZFS L2ARC?
I have two enterprise-grade SSDs that I've been using for L2ARC in an OpenZFS pool for a few years. Workflow during this time has been fairly heavy, with lots of reads and writes, serving up video to ...
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How should I use the new Optum drive?
I have a zpool consisting of 7 2TB HDDs of different vintage in a raidz setup. Currently, there is neither ZIL nor L2ARC device configured. The server has 12GB of RAM and no swap.
The different ...
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In my ZFS box, why is my cache devices leaving a bunch of free space?
I have a ZFS system serving many VMs. In it, we installed 12x4TB SAS disks and configured them in a mirror. We added two PCI-E SSDs (Samsung 960s with 512GB each), but they are each consumed to just ...
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Tracing what blocks go through L2ARC in ZFS on Solaris using dtrace
My colleague and myself are trying to trace the reads/writes to the L2ARC in OpenZFS. We want the block offsets, IO type (read/write) and the device-ids of the requests. Note that we don't want the ...
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ZFS on Linux and KVM: NUMA nodes for host
I am interested in using KVM images on zvols under ZFS on Linux, on a multi-socket system. I am wondering how I should pin NUMA nodes so as to maximize the benefits of ZFS ARC cache for all KVM images ...
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Priming a ZFS L2ARC cache on Solaris 11.3
Is there a good way to prime a ZFS L2ARC cache on Solaris 11.3?
The L2ARC is designed to ignore blocks that have been read sequentially from a file. This makes sense for ongoing operation but makes ...
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freenas zfs read performance sucks .. why?
I just set up a freenas zfs raid-z2 with 4 drives sata enterprise drives and doing some performance tests. Right now I'm pushing and pulling linux images into the storage. My notebook has a samsung ...
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Using SATA III SSDs for ZFS pools
I'm thinking of building a ZFS server optimized for random access (PostgreSQL database). I figured that I have 2 options:
Use pools consisting of the Crucial M500 960 GB SATA III SSDs. Enterprise SAS ...
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size the write cache ZFS
I would like to add a write cache to my Nexenta.
I thought about using 2 SSDs in mirror with a third disc in spare.
The problem is:
How do I calculate the size of my array to maximize the investment (...
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How to fetch current l2arc_max_write setting on Illumos?
I am trying to tweak my ZFS pool, but in order to do this I would like
to know the current l2arc_max_write setting. I know the default is 8 MB/s,
but I can't find the actual value.
I have tried to ...
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Will a SSD cache increase Native ZFS performance for me?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop x64 with Native ZFS using a mirrored pool of 2x2 TB 6.0 Gbps hard drives. My issue is that I'm only getting about 30 Mb/s read/write at any time, I would think my system ...
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Solaris ZFS volumes: workload not hitting L2ARC
I've set up a Solaris Express 11 machine with some reasonably fast HDDs behind a RAID controller, set the device up as a zpool with compression enabled and added a mirrored log and 2 caching devices ...
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ZFS - Impact of L2ARC cache device failure (Nexenta)
I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server running as a NexentaStor storage unit.
The server has 36GB RAM, 2 LSI 9211-8i SAS controllers (no SAS expanders), 2 SAS system drives, 12 SAS data drives, a hot-...
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Where is my free memory? (Solaris 10)
I have a default Solaris 10 installation running on a 64GB box. For some reason, not all of the memory is available for use. The reason I'm even bothered by it, is because I'm trying to get mysql to ...
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What's in my ZFS ARC and L2ARC caches?
I have a simple ZFS setup at home, four disks mirrored, 8GB ram and 120GB Intel X25-M SSD for L2ARC. I ran zpool add poolname cache cXtXdX then generated load and eagerly tracked the warming process ...