<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You might also look at zilstat, which is more interesting than the zpool iostat<div>output :-)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.richardelling.com/Home/scripts-and-programs-1/zilstat">http://www.richardelling.com/Home/scripts-and-programs-1/zilstat</a></div><div><a href="https://github.com/richardelling/tools/">https://github.com/richardelling/tools/</a></div><div> -- richard</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:58 AM, <a href="mailto:steve@linuxsuite.org">steve@linuxsuite.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Howdy!<br><br>       I am doing some testing of zfs on OmniOS. It seems that the ZIL logs<br>never get any I/O.  I have a zpool as follows<br><br>root@live-dfs-1:~# zpool status data1<br>  pool: data1<br> state: ONLINE<br>  scan: resilvered 937G in 17h53m with 0 errors on Sat Jan  5 08:52:32 2013<br>config:<br><br>        NAME                         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM<br>        data1                        ONLINE       0     0     0<br>          raidz2-0                   ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525BFB31d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525C2F91d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525C72B1d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525C9673d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500489956C1d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525EB2B9d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500525F2297d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C50045561CEAd0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C50048990BE6d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c5t5000C500489947A8d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0<br>        logs<br>          mirror-1                   ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c1t2d0                   ONLINE       0     0     0<br>            c1t4d0                   ONLINE       0     0     0<br>        cache<br>          c1t5d0                     ONLINE       0     0     0<br><br>errors: No known data errors<br><br>      Then I simply have a script that does some writing to the zpool.<br><br>     If I run<br><br>    zpool iostat -v data1 5<br><br>   I get output like this ( see below). Why is there never any I/O to the<br> logs? I understood that these logs would be written first before<br> the data is commited to the zpool. I can't find any evidence that this is<br>happening. Lights on hardware don't blink either to indicate activity. I<br>have verified that the disks used for the ZIL are writable.<br> Why is this not happening? How can I make it so?<br><br>      thanx - steve<br><br> root@live-dfs-1:~# zpool iostat -v data1 5<br><br>                                capacity     operations    bandwidth<br>pool                         alloc   free   read  write   read  write<br>---------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----<br>data1                        9.98T  16.8T      0  3.14K      0   113M<br>  raidz2                     9.98T  16.8T      0  3.14K      0   113M<br>    c5t5000C500525BFB31d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500525C2F91d0s0      -      -      0    147      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500525C72B1d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500525C9673d0s0      -      -      0    147      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500489956C1d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500525EB2B9d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500525F2297d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C50045561CEAd0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C50048990BE6d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>    c5t5000C500489947A8d0s0      -      -      0    146      0  16.6M<br>logs                             -      -      -      -      -      -<br>  mirror                         0   148G      0      0      0      0<br>    c1t2d0                       -      -      0      0      0      0<br>    c1t4d0                       -      -      0      0      0      0<br>cache                            -      -      -      -      -      -<br>  c1t5d0                      111G  7.51M      0    179      0  18.6M<br>---------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----<br><br><br>                                capacity     operations    bandwidth<br>pool                         alloc   free   read  write   read  write<br>---------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----<br>data1                        9.99T  16.8T      1  3.56K  10.3K   105M<br>  raidz2                     9.99T  16.8T      1  3.56K  10.3K   105M<br>    c5t5000C500525BFB31d0s0      -      -      0    158  1.58K  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500525C2F91d0s0      -      -      0    168  2.38K  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500525C72B1d0s0      -      -      0    163  2.38K  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500525C9673d0s0      -      -      0    154    810  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500489956C1d0s0      -      -      0    163  1.58K  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500525EB2B9d0s0      -      -      0    161  1.58K  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500525F2297d0s0      -      -      0    158      0  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C50045561CEAd0s0      -      -      0    165      0  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C50048990BE6d0s0      -      -      0    149      0  15.9M<br>    c5t5000C500489947A8d0s0      -      -      0    153      0  15.9M<br>logs                             -      -      -      -      -      -<br>  mirror                         0   148G      0      0      0      0<br>    c1t2d0                       -      -      0      0      0      0<br>    c1t4d0                       -      -      0      0      0      0<br>cache                            -      -      -      -      -      -<br>  c1t5d0                      111G     8M      1    260  1.38K  26.0M<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br>http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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