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Date:      Mon, 18 May 2009 20:12:53 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Ben Kelly <ben@wanderview.com>
Cc:        Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, current@freebsd.org, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault panic with recent kernel with ZFS
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> =A0http://www.wanderview.com/svn/public/misc/zfs/zfs_kmem_limit.diff
>
> But I trigger it based on kmem thresholds. =A0See arc_reclaim_pages().
>
> I can try to put together a smaller patch tomorrow evening that signals t=
he
> pager based on size vs. c target. =A0The main reason I didn't implement i=
t in
> my previous patch was because I was concerned with the arc being prevente=
d
> from growing at all once its been shrunk. =A0It only grows when size exce=
eds
> its current target by a certain amount. =A0This may require some careful
> balancing or hysteresis or something.
>

I was actually referring to your comment about telling the ARC to tell
ZFS to reclaim cached vnodes. Not that the kmem changes aren't good,
but I don't think they're necessary on amd64.

Cheers,
Kip



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