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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:07:28 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Status update - ZFS "stalls" and other misbehavior
Message-ID:  <5415AF30.9060209@denninger.net>

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Those of you who have seen misbehavior of various sorts while running=20
-STABLE w/ZFS filesystems may want to check out the developments in this =

thread on Bugzilla.

Work has continued on the candidate patch I posted back in March, and I=20
recently put forward an updated version incorporating changes made by=20
Steve as well that, at least in my testing and (thus far) on one=20
production system here, have completely eliminated the problem.

More eyes looking at it and running it down are obvious better so if you =

have an interest in this issue or have had problems in this area=20
(/*especially*/ if you have had system "stalls") please check it out.

Those who are using my previous patch from back in March definitely want =

to look at this; while the March changes did largely fix the issue they=20
did so by moving the "danger zone" further out but did not prevent the=20
ZFS code from invading system RAM to the point that it could produce=20
stalls -- it just made it much less likely.  The most-recent patch, as=20
far as I've been able to determine, completely prevent it even when the=20
system is severely overstressed in terms of demanded I/O rate or when=20
the target pool is compromised (e.g. during a resilver operation.)

Thanks.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D187594

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Karl Denninger
karl@denninger.net <mailto:karl@denninger.net>
/The Market Ticker/

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