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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:01:23 +0200
From:      Kai Gallasch <gallasch@free.de>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS v13 performance drops with low memory on FreeBSD-7 STABLE
Message-ID:  <20090608090123.13c21d5f@boiler.free.de>
In-Reply-To: <h0hnil$r5h$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <4A2AA48B.20803@free.de> <h0hnil$r5h$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:55:22 +0200
wrote Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:

> Kai Gallasch wrote:
> > Hi.
> >=20
> > So for me this looks like when running applications and ZFS compete
> > for free RAM, ZFS looses. Is that so?
>=20
> Yes, that was the point of recent work in stabilizing ZFS - without it
> you would probably panic. With it, ZFS's memory is shrunk down. Unless
> there are other factors (like swapping; are you swapping on ZFS?),
> this is the probable reason for what you're seeing.

No. Swapspace is on a standard swap partition outside the zpool.
# swapinfo=20
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/da0s3b       8388608    11636  8376972     0%

There's barely swapping taking place on the server.

--Kai.



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