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Date:      Mon, 18 May 2009 21:42:12 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        "Kip Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault panic with recent kernel with ZFS
Message-ID:  <89bf2a3ec987be637c12029a7cd76508.squirrel@webmail.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90905181815r49a5bbe2u5d4a73e4f91f89a6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090518145614.GF82547@egr.msu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905181031240.35767@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905181830490.1756@borg> <3c1674c90905181659g1d20f0f1w3f623966ae4440ec@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905181906001.2008@borg> <3c1674c90905181800x469d3cabx5df959d3585b4b5a@mail.gmail.com> <040ce5cee10b3b92fd127bbce83f4c77.squirrel@webmail.lerctr.org> <3c1674c90905181815r49a5bbe2u5d4a73e4f91f89a6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 8:15 pm, Kip Macy wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 8:00 pm, Kip Macy wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Kip Macy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The ARC cache allocates wired memory. The ARC will grow until there
>>>>> is
>>>>> vm pressure.
>>>>
>>>> My crash this AM was with 4G real, and the ARC seemed to grow and
>>>> grow,
>>>> then
>>>> we started paging, and then crashed.
>>>>
>>>> Even with the VM pressure it seemed to grow out of control.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You're running the most recent HEAD?
>>
>> Yes.  Also, this used to work just fine (as recently as a 8-may-2009
>> kernel)
>> with 4G real.
>>
>> It used to leave about 2700M free.
>>
>> The changes in the last week apparently changed something.
>>
>> When I crashed this AM, I re-csup'ed.  That's the kernel that's running
>> now.
>
>
>
> Please update to r192360 and let me know if that helps.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kip
>
I've put that code in place.  I'm going to let my normal backups etc run.

Thanks for the quick patch!

LER


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