Re: samba+zfs

From: Dan The Man <dan_at_sunsaturn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:56:20 -0600 (CST)
Running tcpdump to trace what samba is doing so maybe someone can give 
some insight, lan interface is sk0.


02:52:34.347357 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56121, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0x5e3f 
(correct), seq 105687574:105689034, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

02:52:34.347361 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56122, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0xbe99 
(correct), seq 105689034:105690494, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

02:52:34.347365 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56123, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0x0b31 
(correct), seq 105690494:105691954, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

02:52:34.347369 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56124, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0xaee6 
(correct), seq 105691954:105693414, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

02:52:34.347372 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56125, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0xcff5 
(correct), seq 105693414:105694874, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

02:52:34.347376 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56126, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto TCP (6), length 1500)
     asterisk.microsoft-ds > desktop.58858: Flags [.], cksum 0xd893 
(correct), seq 105694874:105696334, ack 63894978, win 256, length 
1460SMB-over-TCP packet:(raw data or continuation?)

We get a ton of these, my mapped samba drive on Z: becomes nearly 
unresponsive after i start transferring things through it, yet I can jump 
on Y: drive which is NFS mount to same interface on machine and everything 
is fine and responsive....


Dan.


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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Dan The Man wrote:

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> Well been running a week now and problems again. 3 3 terrabyte drives are 
> _at_85% with compression enabled, i have to wonder if that is part of the 
> problem.
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> Dan.
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> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Kurt Touet wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 09/11/2011, at 17:32, Garrett Cooper wrote
>>>>> dd's of large files (spooled backups going to tape) to /dev/null are as 
>>>>> slow as Samba.
>>>> 
>>>>    - Dedupe?
>>> 
>>> Nope.
>>> 
>>>>    - Compression?
>>> 
>>> On the mail spool & ports, but not on the tape spool.
>>> 
>>>>    - How much RAM?
>>> 
>>> 8GB.
>>> 
>>>>    - What debug options do you have enabled in the kernel?
>>> 
>>> It is 8.2-GENERIC so.. no WITNESS (for example)
>>> 
>>>>    I've been noticing a slowdown in some respects with NFS/SMB, but I
>>>> suspected it was because I have an re(4) based NIC. ZFS has also wired
>>>> down a lot of my system memory for the L2ARC…
>>> 
>>> 
>>> re isn't great but I wouldn't expect it to slow down over time.. Unless 
>>> bounce buffers got used more and more or something.
>>> 
>>> I have an em0 card in this system - but in any case it is slow locally 
>>> (i.e. dd a large file with 64k block size).
>>> 
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>> 
>> Right now (while experience slow writes via samba+zfs) this is general
>> read speed off a 4 x 1.5TB sata2 raidz1:
>> 
>> # dd if=test.file of=/dev/null
>> 13753502+1 records in
>> 13753502+1 records out
>> 7041793036 bytes transferred in 100.020897 secs (70403218 bytes/sec)
>> 
>> That's not in the same ball park of slow writes, but it is below what
>> I expect for reads.
>> 
>> My setup is a little odd:  4x1.5tb raidz sata2 on mobo + 2 x 2tb
>> mirror on sata1 pci controller, zfs v28, stable/9 r227357, amd x4 810
>> 2.6ghz, 4gb ram, no dedupe, no compression, daily snapshots saved for
>> 7 days
>> 
>> The above file read was stored before the 2 x 2tb mirror addition, so
>> it was a solely read off the sata2 mobo ports.   Reading off of
>> something more recent (and split amongst both raidz1 and mirror
>> vdevs):
>> 
>> # dd if=test2.file of=/dev/null
>> 9154715+1 records in
>> 9154715+1 records out
>> 4687214153 bytes transferred in 82.963181 secs (56497522 bytes/sec)
>> 
>> This is, again, seems slower than usual, but not as terrible as the
>> write speeds that I've been seeing via samba.
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