Average writes to Disk
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@fireodo I don't see anything listed for 16GB size.. But the 64 is listed as
36.5TBW (64GB)
So you have to assume lower than that.. So yeah, prob not the best drives for lots of writes..
Lets call it half that.. Your looking at like 2.5 years only..
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@johnpoz said in Average writes to Disk:
@fireodo I don't see anything listed for 16GB size.. But the 64 is listed as
36.5TBW (64GB)
So you have to assume lower than that.. So yeah, prob not the best drives for lots of writes..
Lets call it half that.. Your looking at like 2.5 years only..
Of course this all sounds reasonable but for me its strange that a older APU (that I have as quick replacement in case of hardware failure - i do much HomeOffice) with 2.4.5 shows insignificant writes to disk (also ZFS) far far away from 20GB/day.
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Extra space will get longer life, more room for TRIM to work with and at todays prices it is worth the investment IMHO.
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@andyrh said in Average writes to Disk:
Extra space will get longer life, more room for TRIM to work with and at todays prices it is worth the investment IMHO.
I understand that all very well - its the Researcher in me that wants to find out what the real cause of all that is! Eliminating the symptoms dont eliminate the ill (if it is one) ;-)
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@fireodo said in Average writes to Disk:
its the Researcher in me that wants to find out what the real cause of all that is!
Agreed.
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@johnpoz Is this process telling you (or somebody else) something?
zpool-zroot{txg_thread_enter}
This process is doing very much writing when I use
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I see that pop up every few seconds on mine as well
But I have no idea what it is or does to be honest..
Maybe a zfs guru will chime in - that sure isn't me ;)
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@johnpoz said in Average writes to Disk:
But I have no idea what it is or does to be honest..
I googled about it but I did not find anything concludent - that's why I was asking.
Would you show me your output of iostat -d 5 6 ?
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here you go - but I don't have a ssd, this is on a netgate sg4860
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@johnpoz said in Average writes to Disk:
here you go - but I don't have a ssd, this is on a netgate sg4860
Thanks a lot - your values are similar to mine! You have also ZFS?
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Yeah zfs.. Like I said I agree that 20GB a day seems like a lot - if your doing your math right, etc. But even at that your typical ssd should have a long life anyway..
My desktop model sg4860 has eMMC not ssd.. Which also have limited life writes..
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@johnpoz said in Average writes to Disk:
My desktop model sg4860 has eMMC not ssd.. Which also have limited life writes..
Is that eMMC replaceable?
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I don't think so - not easy... But I think there is something missing here on what is actually being written.
So from my understanding zpool iostat shows total since boot..
[21.05.1-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/: zpool iostat capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zroot 969M 25.1G 0 10 645 227K [21.05.1-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/:My box has been up for days.. Since I updated it to 21.05.1
Uptime 6 Days 02 Hours 12 Minutes 47 Seconds
edit: Well that can not be since boot... Not exactly sure what that reads to be honest.. But if you have it report every 2 seconds.
[21.05.1-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/: zpool iostat zroot 2 capacity operations bandwidth pool alloc free read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- zroot 970M 25.1G 0 10 645 227K zroot 970M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 968M 25.1G 0 34 0 552K zroot 968M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 35 0 624K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 38 0 532K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 33 0 602K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 34 0 520K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 33 0 618K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 33 0 531K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 33 0 621K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 zroot 967M 25.1G 0 7 0 114K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 24 0 415K zroot 967M 25.1G 0 0 0 0 -
@johnpoz Here is my output - I'm also no ZFS expert!
As far as I see not much different ...
zpool iostat
capacity operations bandwidth
pool alloc free read write read write
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 12 319 214K
zpool iostat zroot 2
capacity operations bandwidth
pool alloc free read write read write
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 12 319 214K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 35 0 623K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 30 0 432K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 1 0 8.00K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 36 0 535K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 32 0 442K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 2 0 28.0K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 35 0 618K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 32 0 420K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 3 0 22.0K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 35 0 486K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 32 0 442K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 7.99K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 5.98K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 32 0 442K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 806M 11.7G 0 1 0 14.0K
zroot 806M 11.7G 0 2 0 28.0K
zroot 806M 11.7G 0 1 0 14.0K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 33 0 442K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 31 0 428K
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 0 0 0
zroot 807M 11.7G 0 10 0 623K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 33 0 547K
zroot 808M 11.7G 0 35 0 498K
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SG-3100 - 21.05.1 - pfblockerng dnsbl python mode enabled
iostat -d 5 6
dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.
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@mcury I guess FS is UFS and not ZFS ...
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@fireodo said in Average writes to Disk:
@mcury I guess FS is UFS and not ZFS ...
Indeed, UFS here, noatime in fstab
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@mcury said in Average writes to Disk:
@fireodo said in Average writes to Disk:
@mcury I guess FS is UFS and not ZFS ...
Indeed, UFS here, noatime in fstab
So it seams to cristallise that ZFS is the problem ...
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@mcury said in Average writes to Disk:
SG-3100 - 21.05.1 - pfblockerng dnsbl python mode enabled
iostat -d 5 6
This is really interesting because your box does not suffer from sustained writing from UNBOUND (caused by pfBlockerNG in python mode).
That would suggest it’s a setting or configuration detail that causes the issue.I wonder what that might be. I think my setup is fairly default, but I have pfBlockerNG creating alias lists instead of it’s own rules.
Maybe we should start a thread with pfBlockerNG configs to see if we can find the root configuration cause for sustained writing to disk in pfBlockerNG?
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@keyser Just as a follow up I think I have now tried EVERY possible setting in my pfBlockerNG setup in terms of making it “quiet” on disk writes.
Nothing sticks - No lists, no logging enabled anywhere, nothing - and still I have a UNBOUND process that writes on average about 380 Kb/s to disk if python mode is enabled.
If I disable Python mode or disable pfBlockerNG in general, UNBOUND no longer does it’s sustained disk writing.So what could cause that behavior?
