Hi there,
I am just trying to dedupe some volumes on one of our filers and the first volume (2.4TB data, CIFS share) deduplicates since about 4 hours now. Sysstat -x 1 shows:
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 58% 115 0 0 116 2239 3635 281593 32 0 0 0s 98% 0% - 100% 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 63% 162 0 0 169 1682 4149 310829 0 0 0 0s 99% 0% - 100% 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 50% 381 0 0 384 11793 11325 182100 0 0 0 0s 96% 0% - 100% 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 55% 412 0 0 416 6487 6040 223036 24 0 0 0s 97% 0% - 100% 0 0 4 0 0 37 0 51% 19 0 0 19 185 9 239388 0 0 0 2 98% 0% - 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51% 77 0 0 80 348 906 273880 8 0 0 2 99% 0% - 100% 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 60% 48 0 0 49 174 410 196179 271 0 0 2 98% 35% Tn 100% 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 45% 102 0 0 110 337 337 144387 21222 0 0 2 96% 100% :f 100% 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 71% 143 0 0 149 258 2814 109728 24268 0 0 2 85% 100% :f 86% 0 0 6 0 0 25 0 53% 64 0 0 65 203 1368 236620 14152 0 0 2 98% 100% :f 100% 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 49% 96 0 0 96 319 1317 185552 19748 0 0 2 96% 100% :f 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35% 109 0 0 117 381 1962 62613 18010 0 0 2 88% 100% :f 100% 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 55% 38 0 0 39 159 1168 239408 1980 0 0 2 97% 100% :f 100% 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 57% 177 0 0 179 308 6692 136568 520 0 0 2 92% 82% : 99% 0 0 2 0 0 37 0 39% 256 0 0 271 403 12647 117284 0 0 0 2 93% 0% - 97% 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 40% 232 0 0 473 808 7506 162368 32 0 0 2 96% 0% - 100% 240 0 1 0 0 0 0 38% 86 0 0 86 246 3413 160092 0 0 0 2 96% 0% - 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47% 113 0 0 117 314 1738 199516 0 0 0 2 96% 0% - 100% 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 59% 116 0 0 120 476 2751 288048 24 0 0 0s 99% 0% - 100% 0 0 4 0 0 24 0 45% 230 0 0 230 2879 6547 185787 120 0 0 0s 98% 0% - 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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NetApp Release 8.1.2P2 7-Mode: Wed Feb 20 19:58:27 PST 2013
I'm aware that deduplication _SHOULD_ be a background process hugging up as much resources as it can but when host i/o is needed, it will be preferred over deduplication. There are no other tasks running at the same time (snapvault, etc.), and the virtual machinse on this system are _VERY_ slow - f.ex. logging in via RDP on one of the virtual machines now took > 1 minute for the login window to appear.
This is a FAS2240 with 24x600 SAS 10k and basically my question now is: Is there any way to tell a-sis to really run with lower priority or is this a bug in the OnTap version I'm running? I've used a-sis a lot in the past and never had performance issues like this when it was running...
I'm thankful for any ideas how to track down this issue or improve performance while a-sis is running.
Thanks,
Alexander Griesser System-Administrator
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