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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:11:40 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two odd problems with STABLE-10 r262921 [ZFS ARC memory allocation / "freeze" problems  -- RESOLVED]
Message-ID:  <5323B6DC.7020205@denninger.net>
In-Reply-To: <531F14A7.9090103@denninger.net>
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On 3/11/2014 8:50 AM, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> The other issue is that I am running into bizarre wired memory behavior=
=2E  I
> have ZFS on the box and it was wiring down ~20GB, driving the system in=
to
> paging.  I dropped arc_max to 16GB as a hard limit, it's currently show=
ing
> 15GB, but...
>
> 20531152 wire
>
> zfs-stats -A shows:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
> ZFS Subsystem Report                            Tue Mar 11 08:27:55 201=
4
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
>
> ARC Summary: (HEALTHY)
>          Memory Throttle Count:                  0
>
> ARC Misc:
>          Deleted:                                4.22m
>          Recycle Misses:                         57.10k
>          Mutex Misses:                           320
>          Evict Skips:                            2.35m
>
> ARC Size:                               95.96%  15.35   GiB
>          Target Size: (Adaptive)         100.00% 16.00   GiB
>          Min Size (Hard Limit):          12.50%  2.00    GiB
>          Max Size (High Water):          8:1     16.00   GiB
>
> ARC Size Breakdown:
>          Recently Used Cache Size:       75.49%  12.08   GiB
>          Frequently Used Cache Size:     24.51%  3.92    GiB
>
> ARC Hash Breakdown:
>          Elements Max:                           1.59m
>          Elements Current:               55.53%  883.80k
>          Collisions:                             5.84m
>          Chain Max:                              16
>          Chains:                                 261.48k
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-
>
> Ok, where's the rest coming from?  There's nothing in the shared memory=

> segment list that appears to be related.
>
> Is there a memory leak in here somewhere?
As posted to the fs mailing list I have found and corrected this issue;=20
the ARC eviction code has issues.

Please pardon the apparently-reversed patch I submitted; it's Friday, I=20
didn't have enough coffee and Murphy got me twice while putting that=20
together (the first time when I pulled the diff off without committing=20
the last change I had made back to my local tree first!)

If you're having issues with your system stalling while running ZFS=20
filesystems and it appears you're being driven into paging when you=20
shouldn't be (in other words, the ARC cache is consuming all of your RAM =

and not releasing it as other things demand memory) this should fix it.  =

It also includes a run-time tunable via sysctl (defaults to 25%, which=20
was the original intent of the code that I replaced) for the percentage=20
of memory to target as free, below which the ARC will be asked to=20
release RAM.

See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D187594

--=20
-- Karl
karl@denninger.net



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