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Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ramenshaman@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I tried to find a more applicable community to post this to but didn't find anything.

I recently set up a NAS/server on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS (see my last post) and since then I've got everything installed into a 3D printed enclosure and I've got RAID set up (ZFS RAIDz1). Prior to setting up RAID, I could transfer files to/from the NAS at around 200MB/s, but now that RAID is seemingly working things are transferring at around 28-30 MB/s. I did a couple searches and found someone suggesting to disable sync ($ sudo zfs set sync=disabled zfspool). I tried that and it doesn't seem to have had any effect. Any suggestions are welcome but keep in mind that I barely know what I'm doing.

Edit: When I look at the SATA hat, the LEDs indicate that the drives are being written to for less than half a second and then there's a break of about 4 seconds where there's no writing going on.

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[–] calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

sync=disabled will make ZFS write to disk every 5 seconds instead of when software demands it, which maybe explains your LED behavior.

Jeff Geerling found that writes with Z1 was 74 MB/sec using the Radxa Penta SATA HAT with SSDs. Any HDD should be that fast, the SATA hat is likely the bottleneck.

Are you performing writes locally, or over smb?

Can try iostat or zpool iostat to monitor drive writes and latencies, might give a clue.

How much RAM does the Pi 5 have?

[–] calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After some googling:

Some Linux distributions (at least Debian, Ubuntu) enable init_on_alloc option as security precaution by default. This option can help to prevent possible information leaks and make control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.

Unfortunately, it can lower ARC throughput considerably (see bug).

If you’re ready to cope with these security risks 6, you may disable it by setting init_on_alloc=0 in the GRUB kernel boot parameters.

I think it's set to 1 on Raspberry Pi OS, you set it in /boot/cmdline.txtI think.

Exhaustive ZFS performance tuning guide

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