Some of your questions are answered int thread ... On 21. okt. 2017 18:05, matthew patton wrote:
0) what is the full DD command you are issuing? (I think we have this)
dd if=file_250G of=/dev/null status=progress
1) does your DD command work when LVM is not using caching of any kind.
Just dd had been running.
2) does your DD command work if using 'direct' mode
nope
3) are you able to write smaller chunks from NON-cached LVM volume to SSD vdev? Is there an inflection point in size where it goes haywire?
Tried for a smaller file, system became unresponsive for few minutes, LVM cache 51% however system survived with no reboot.
4) what is your IO elevator/scheduler set to?
deadline for all disks in LV
5) what is value of vm.dirty_background_ratio vm.dirty_ratio vm.dirty_background_bytes vm.dirty_bytes
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 0 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10 vm.dirty_bytes = 0 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 3000 vm.dirty_ratio = 20 vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 500
What do you observe in /proc/vmstat during DD? 6) run DD via strace
Once again, system were not responding to ICMP so checking vmstat does not make any sense because of deny of service to ssh or terminal.
strace? What are you planning to see their? open() and continues read() system calls?
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