[OmniOS-discuss] L2ARC actual size and zpool iostat -v output discrepancy?

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 2/12/14, 3:31 PM, wuffers wrote:
> So I only upgraded to r151008 recently, and was wondering whether the
> new L2ARC compression was working. After getting an updated arcstat
> script which added the l2asize option (which returned a 0), and a few
> rounds in IRC which lead me to the correct kstat
> (zfs:0:arcstats:l2_asize), and an even more updated arcstat to fix the 0
> result..
> 
> Now both kstat and arcstat are outputting the same info:
> zfs:0:arcstats:l2_asize 864682956800
> zfs:0:arcstats:l2_size  1374605708288
> 
> arcstat:
> read  hits  miss  hit%  l2read  l2hits  l2miss  l2hit%  arcsz  l2size 
> l2asize
> 2.7K  2.6K    53    98      53      44       9      83   229G   
> 1.3T     806G
> 5.1K  4.8K   282    94     282      17     265       6   229G   
> 1.3T     806G
> 7.3K  7.3K    10    99      10       4       6      40   229G   
> 1.3T     806G
> ...
> 
> But.. why is zpool iostat -v showing me my cache devices using up ~1.25T
> (314Gx4), which is close to the 1.3T l2size?
> 
>                               capacity     operations    bandwidth
> pool                       alloc   free   read  write   read  write
> -------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
> [snip]
> 
> cache                          -      -      -      -      -      -
>   c2t500117310015D579d0     313G  59.4G     19     15   711K   833K
>   c2t50011731001631FDd0     314G  58.1G     18     15   712K   836K
>   c12t500117310015D59Ed0    314G  58.8G     19     15   710K   835K
>   c12t500117310015D54Ed0    313G  59.7G     18     15   709K   832K
> -------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
> 
> What's with the discrepancy? Is zpool iostat calculating the free
> capacity incorrectly now (my cache drives are 400GB)?

What's the block size of your SSDs and the average recordsize of the
data on them?

-- 
Saso