Hi Everyone,
We have a system built around several IBM N-Series N3220 (FAS2240-2) filers.
When I run snapvault of our biggest cifs share it is running 9-10hours. The users are running a pgm that is deleting lots documents out of this share. A week ago the share had +32m inodes. Today it has 23m inodes. Just yesterday they deleted 1m inodes.
During the entire SV run the disks on the prod filer head are Running at 96-100% utilization. This is clearly hammering the disks and they are a big bottleneck.
During normal activity on this share usually runs SV in a few min to an hour.
My question: Does this sound reasonable? Does a 9-10hr SV run pounding disks at >96% util for a high delete rate in the share?
Thanks
Rick
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All heads are running Data ONTAP Release 8.1.2P1 7-Mode.
The main Prod filer is a dual head (HA) with one head dedicated to FCP/luns, while the other head is dedicated to CIFS shares. Prod-Head-A 16x3tb drives, raidDP All CIFS shares Prod-Head-B 22x600gb drives, raidDP Oracle DB FCP/Luns
The SV secondary is a single head that is dedicated as a Snapvault secondary. SV-Head-A 18x3tb drives, raidDP SV Secondary for both Prod heads above
Df and df -i for the share in question. A week ago it had 32m inodes. df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/ 3208544256 3143864380 64679876 98% /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/ /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/.snapshot 0 264078944 0 ---% /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/.snapshot Df -i Filesystem iused ifree %iused Mounted on /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/ 23009838 19147066 55% /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/
The application folks are running pgms that are deleting documents out of this share. The result of this activity is that snapvault runs on this share is taking 9-10hr. The transfer duration is 7hr, but the entire cmd ran over 9hr.
Here is the snapvault status from a backup run. The SV had a transfer duration of 7hr, but the actual cmd took over 9hr to run.
==> cmd = ssh -q xxxxxxxxa -n snapvault status -l /vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/q_fnce22p_cifs Snapvault is ON. Source: yyyyyyyya:/vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/q_fnce22p_cifs Destination: xxxxxxxxa:/vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/q_fnce22p_cifs Status: Idle Progress: - State: Snapvaulted Lag: 10:40:15 Mirror Timestamp: Tue Aug 5 06:42:03 EDT 2014 Base Snapshot: xxxxxxxxa(1896301030)_v_fnce22p_cifs-base.0 Current Transfer Type: - Current Transfer Error: - Contents: Replica Last Transfer Type: Update Last Transfer Size: 542620 KB Last Transfer Duration: 07:11:58 Last Transfer From: yyyyyyyya:/vol/v_fnce22p_cifs/q_fnce22p_cifs
During this SV run, the disks on the prod head are >95% busy for the duration of the cmd. Here are a few sysstat lines from during the SV run.
CPU NFS CIFS HTTP Total Net kB/s Disk kB/s Tape kB/s Cache Cache CP CP Disk OTHER FCP iSCSI FCP kB/s iSCSI kB/s in out read write read write age hit time ty util in out in out 23% 0 1113 0 1131 482 1600 25612 1674 0 0 1 90% 64% Ts 98% 8 10 0 0 1 0 0 24% 0 1167 0 1185 1052 4197 16627 2151 0 0 58s 92% 61% 12s 100% 8 10 0 0 1 0 0 28% 0 1177 0 1197 1012 2645 28593 2186 0 0 53s 90% 70% Ts 96% 10 10 0 0 1 0 0 28% 0 1109 0 1127 890 1478 33394 2336 0 0 5s 90% 89% 14 97% 8 10 0 0 1 0 0
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