zfs send receive performance issues

I 'm trying to clone a zfs file system pool/u01 to a new file system called newpool/u01 using following commands


zfs list 
zfs snapshot pool/u01@new
zfs send pool/u01@new | zfs -F receive newpool/u01 

Its a 100G file system snapshot and copied to same server on different pool and took like 5hrs to complete and the problem is that the overall throught put i get is very very poor. I 'm not able to figure out why .

Generally it should be 50-60M/sec but not in my case , can anyone suggest what could be the reason and how can i improve this one.

Thanks in Advance.

tell a bit more... what kind of server? how are the disks connected and how are the pools build? from the commands send and receive we can not say anything... would all be speculations.
if this is a hardware issue, we need to know EVERYTHING about the hardware!

Install mbuffer and run:

zfs send pool/u01@new  | mbuffer -s 128k -m 2G -o -| zfs -F receive newpool/u01

Source: Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive

Hi Jillagre,

I cannot install this on my production server without n no. of approvals.

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 09:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:10 AM ----------

Its a M4000 server with pools configured following


bash-3.00$ zpool status prd_newpool
  pool: prd_newpool
 state: ONLINE
 scan: none requested
config:

        NAME                                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        prd_newpool                           ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
-bash-3.00$ zpool status prd_pool
  pool: prd_pool
 state: ONLINE
 scan: none requested
config:

        NAME                                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        prd_pool                              ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors





iostat o/p shows following


pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                           117G  81.6G      0      0      0      0
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0   117G  81.6G      0      0      0      0
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   715G  1.04K      0  9.18M  25.6K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    214      0  1.90M  8.80K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    279      0  2.45M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    279      0  2.42M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    296      0  2.40M  5.60K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                           117G  81.6G      0    112      0  13.9M
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0   117G  81.6G      0    112      0  13.9M
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   715G    682      1  7.42M  51.2K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    155      0  1.92M  14.4K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    182      0  1.91M  9.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    190      0  1.74M  12.8K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    153      0  1.86M  14.4K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                           118G  81.4G      0    216      0  25.8M
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0   118G  81.4G      0    216      0  25.8M
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   715G    966      1  17.1M  50.4K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    232      0  4.18M  7.20K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    249      0  4.34M  11.2K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    262      0  4.31M  12.8K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    222      0  4.32M  19.2K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                           118G  81.4G      0      0      0      0
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0   118G  81.4G      0      0      0      0
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   715G  1.25K      0  18.7M  25.6K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    317      0  4.71M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    306      0  4.70M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    325      0  4.64M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    327      0  4.69M  8.80K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                           118G  81.4G      0      0      0      0
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0   118G  81.4G      0      0      0      0
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   715G    729      1  10.5M  50.4K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    193      0  2.65M  17.6K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    174      0  2.63M  12.8K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    166      0  2.63M  14.4K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    193      0  2.62M  5.60K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----


Could you post the results of:

iostat -sndzx 2

Run that while you're doing the ZFS send/receive.

Then the wisest way would be for you to ask for these approvals. There is no much point trying to find other causes and/or seek different solutions while that one has proved to be very successful.

c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0 is the disk from the pool which is the target pool where zfs receive is running.



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  283.0    0.0 2620.7    0.0  0.0  1.2    0.0    4.2   0  34 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  253.0    0.0 2715.4    0.0  0.0  1.2    0.0    4.6   0  33 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  261.5    0.0 2677.2    0.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    4.0   0  30 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  224.5    0.0 2228.4    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.9   0  18 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  224.5    1.0 1420.7   22.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    1.5   0  17 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  220.5    1.0 1473.9   14.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.9   0  33 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  202.0    1.0 1176.7   26.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    1.7   0  14 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  168.0    0.0 1215.2    0.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    6.4   0  46 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  202.0    1.0 1159.2   18.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.9   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  181.0    1.0 1137.7   10.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    3.0   0  23 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  208.0    1.0 1469.0   18.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    5.1   0  53 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  154.0    1.0 1058.0   18.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    2.1   0  13 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  303.3    0.0 1502.9    0.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    1.5   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  230.0    0.0 1438.8    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.5   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  192.0    0.0 1189.2    0.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    4.9   0  43 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  281.8    0.0 1374.0    0.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    1.7   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  107.7    1.0  566.9   22.0  0.0  0.1    0.0    1.3   0   7 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
   77.1    1.0  565.4   22.0  0.0  1.1    0.0   13.8   0  36 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
   95.6    1.0  578.6    6.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    9.8   0  38 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
   86.1    1.0  514.3   14.0  0.0  1.2    0.0   14.0   0  44 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  285.3    1.0 1540.7   26.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    1.8   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  282.3    1.0 1662.3   14.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.0   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  276.8    1.0 1679.3   14.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    3.7   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  283.8    1.0 1574.7   10.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.4   0  38 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  175.4    0.0  996.7    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    3.5   0  26 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  213.3    0.0  829.8    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    1.9   0  19 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  175.4    0.0  630.7    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    2.0   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  226.8    0.0 1054.9    0.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    3.9   0  46 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  116.6   51.5  540.7  448.9  0.0  0.2    0.0    1.4   0  12 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  110.6   35.5  586.5  333.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    3.6   0  40 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
   98.6   20.0  623.0  261.7  0.0  0.4    0.0    3.3   0  28 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
   98.6   29.5  555.7  362.8  0.0  1.6    0.0   12.2   0  43 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  206.0    1.0 1092.6   14.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    2.1   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  199.5    1.0 1156.7   18.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    1.8   0  18 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  196.5    1.0 1128.7   10.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    1.8   0  16 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  189.0    1.0 1165.4   21.9  0.0  0.9    0.0    4.8   0  38 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
    0.0  667.3    0.0 42128.5  0.0  3.8    0.0    5.7   0  41 c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0
  424.6    0.0 4171.4    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    1.6   0  21 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  464.2    0.0 4388.4    0.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.2   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  437.1    0.0 4053.2    0.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.4   0  35 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  419.1    0.0 3844.2    0.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.5   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
    0.0  488.7    0.0 46941.7  0.0  3.4    0.0    7.0   0  38 c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0
  437.8    1.0 3608.7   14.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    1.7   0  27 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  397.3    1.0 3399.6   26.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.5   0  36 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  312.3    0.0 3185.9    0.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    3.1   0  37 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  360.8    1.0 3619.2   22.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    2.3   0  28 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  189.7    1.0 1262.8   18.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    2.6   0  19 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  192.2    1.0 1123.2   10.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    2.0   0  23 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  174.2    1.0 1017.4   18.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    2.9   0  27 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  176.2    1.0 1091.0   18.0  0.0  1.2    0.0    6.7   0  47 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  332.5    0.0 2983.5    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    2.5   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  270.4    0.0 2700.8    0.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    3.4   0  28 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  288.4    0.0 3095.4    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.2   0  19 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  277.9    0.0 2734.4    0.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    3.2   0  40 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  185.1    1.0 1587.4   18.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    1.7   0  12 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  205.6    1.0 1691.2   10.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    1.6   0  15 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
   87.5    1.0 1081.4   26.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    6.3   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  130.1    1.0 1606.7   10.0  0.0  2.4    0.0   18.0   0  67 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  206.1    1.0 1304.7   14.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    1.9   0  23 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  203.6    1.0 1146.2   14.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    2.2   0  27 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  246.1    1.0 1455.1   18.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.4   0  29 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  146.6    1.0  853.3   18.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    6.4   0  32 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  370.1    0.0 2136.9    0.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    1.4   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  348.6    0.0 2144.7    0.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    1.5   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  383.1    0.0 1952.1    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    1.5   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  306.1    0.0 1745.8    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.4   0  39 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  150.0    1.0 1126.6   18.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    1.8   0  12 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  158.0    1.0 1244.1   10.0  0.0  0.4    0.0    2.7   0  22 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  150.5    1.0 1110.8   14.0  0.0  0.3    0.0    2.3   0  15 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  130.0    1.0  858.2   22.0  0.0  2.4    0.0   18.0   0  62 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  322.7    1.0 2393.6   14.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.2   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  308.2    1.0 2323.7   14.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.0   0  27 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  273.7    1.0 2298.7   14.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    2.0   0  17 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  282.7    1.0 2165.6   22.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    4.0   0  50 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  262.2    0.0 1750.0    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.7   0  35 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  298.2    0.0 1774.7    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0    2.0   0  25 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  316.8    0.0 1875.8    0.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    3.6   0  34 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  203.7    0.0 1587.1    0.0  0.0  0.5    0.0    2.3   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  541.6    1.0 5460.4   18.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    1.6   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  439.2    1.0 5466.2   10.0  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.3   0  32 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  426.7    1.0 5678.0   26.0  0.0  1.3    0.0    3.1   0  34 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  363.2    1.0 5056.0   10.0  0.0  1.7    0.0    4.6   0  37 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  491.2    1.0 5019.1   14.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    1.6   0  20 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  411.7    1.0 5098.4   14.0  0.0  1.7    0.0    4.0   0  38 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  353.2    1.0 5158.0   18.0  0.0  1.4    0.0    3.9   0  34 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  309.6    1.0 4694.2   18.0  0.0  1.8    0.0    5.7   0  41 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  264.9    0.0 3130.0    0.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    4.1   0  30 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  224.4    0.0 3085.3    0.0  0.0  1.4    0.0    6.4   0  33 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  236.9    0.0 3048.3    0.0  0.0  1.3    0.0    5.7   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  213.0    0.0 2885.8    0.0  0.0  1.1    0.0    5.1   0  29 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  395.5    5.5 5185.4   23.2  0.0  1.0    0.0    2.5   0  19 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  350.0   22.0 5147.7  152.7  0.0  1.6    0.0    4.3   0  35 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  334.0   24.5 5132.9  105.7  0.0  1.5    0.0    4.2   0  37 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  342.5   17.0 4659.2   58.2  0.0  1.8    0.0    5.0   0  33 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
  293.7    1.0 3585.9    9.9  0.0  0.7    0.0    2.4   0  18 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  242.2    1.0 3453.6   17.8  0.0  1.2    0.0    5.1   0  24 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  222.4    1.0 3453.9   17.8  0.0  1.3    0.0    5.9   0  37 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  189.7    1.0 3271.3   17.8  0.0  1.7    0.0    9.0   0  35 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
    1.0 1092.6    1.2 62896.5  0.0  5.4    0.0    4.9   1  58 c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0
  522.4    0.0 6991.1    0.0  0.0  1.3    0.0    2.4   0  30 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  530.4    0.0 6832.0    0.0  0.0  1.2    0.0    2.2   0  26 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  536.0    0.0 7089.9    0.0  0.0  1.3    0.0    2.5   0  30 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0
  475.6    0.0 6651.8    0.0  0.0  1.3    0.0    2.7   0  32 c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0
    0.5  850.3    0.5 102811.1  0.0  2.8    0.0    3.3   0  37 c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0
  747.5    1.0 8251.4   18.0  0.0  1.4    0.0    1.8   0  28 c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0
  611.8    1.0 7956.0   10.0  0.0  1.4    0.0    2.4   0  31 c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0
  649.9    1.0 8371.6   22.0  0.0  1.5    0.0    2.3   0  32 c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0

the iostat output seconds the need for mbuffer... btw zpool iostat would be a better tool for monitoring io on a zpool:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gammt/index.html

OP says mbuffer isn't going to be allowed.

Running

zfs send ... > /some/file/name

where the file is on a known FAST file system would help isolate if the issue is in the send or the receive. Run the send, see how fast it is, then run receive off that file and see how fast that is.

Maybe some useful data points can be generated.

And there might even be some way to use a file and some standard utilities to duplicate the functionality of mbuffer. Maybe something as simple as starting the send to a file, waiting a few minutes, then starting the receive might work if the send always runs faster than the receive and the receive won't hit EOF before the send is done.

Achelen that seems to be good way to pin down what is slowing ..

followng is the zpool iostat o/p

bash-3.00$ zpool iostat -v  prd_pool prd_newpool 5
                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                          98.1G   101G      0      2    307   219K
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  98.1G   101G      0      2    307   219K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   714G    185     18  8.53M  1.09M
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G     44      4  2.07M   266K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G     46      4  2.16M   282K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G     47      4  2.15M   282K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G     47      4  2.15M   282K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                          98.1G   101G      0      0      0      0
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  98.1G   101G      0      0      0      0
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   714G  1.30K      1  29.7M  36.8K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    379      0  7.45M  11.2K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    248      0  7.36M  11.2K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    348      0  7.43M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    353      0  7.46M  8.79K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                          98.1G   101G      0      0      0      0
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  98.1G   101G      0      0      0      0
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   714G    830      0  19.7M  39.2K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    237      0  4.88M  10.4K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    147      0  4.92M  7.20K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    198      0  4.86M  16.0K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    246      0  5.04M  5.60K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_newpool                          98.1G   101G      0    280      0  26.0M
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  98.1G   101G      0    280      0  26.0M
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
prd_pool                             1.19T   714G    477     23  13.4M   162K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    144      4  3.46M  53.9K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G     86      8  3.31M  53.3K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    106      6  3.21M  28.3K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    139      4  3.45M  26.9K
--------------------------------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

                                           capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool                                    alloc   free   read  write   read  write
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prd_newpool                          98.4G   101G      0    203      0  24.0M
  c5t6006016027C02C006E8E04308D17E211d0  98.4G   101G      0    203      0  24.0M
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prd_pool                             1.19T   714G    984      0  26.0M  25.6K
  c5t60060160EEB12C007A5677518D3CE111d0   296G   152G    233      0  6.21M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0092C024408D3CE111d0   309G   187G    185      0  6.45M  8.79K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0094C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    269      0  6.75M  5.60K
  c5t60060160EEB12C0096C024408D3CE111d0   308G   188G    296      0  6.54M  5.60K
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