Bug #54
closed
metaslab_min_alloc_size may be too big
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Description
See bugs.opensolaris.org: CR 6962304. It seems like we could adjust this tunable to be a bit more sane.
The current default value of metaslab_min_alloc_size is 10M
Several systems which have pools that are in the neighborhood of 70% or so full
were observed spending a lot of time in metaslab-related code and were generally seen as slow.
Someone suggested patching metaslab_min_alloc_size to 4K, and this has significantly reduced the amount of cpu used by zfs and made the systems significantly more responsive.
Looks like the default value is wrong.
Workaround:
Add the following to /etc/system and reboot:
- Work around 6962304
set zfs:metaslab_min_alloc_size=0x1000
Updated by Garrett D'Amore almost 11 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Difficulty set to Medium
- Tags set to needs-triage
Turns out this tunable is made irrelevant as a result of a change to use the metaslab_df_ops allocator. We don't need to change it. I'm closing this bug.