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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:44:13 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs kernel panic
Message-ID:  <20090908164413.GC1539@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20090908172332.476d9e0b.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
References:  <20090908172332.476d9e0b.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:23:32PM +0200, Gerrit K=FChn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>=20
> I just upgraded a zfs server from 7.0-something to 7.2-stable and hoped to
> get rid of some minor instabilities I experienced every 6 months or so.
> Unfortunately, the new system crashed for the first time after only a few
> hours when copying some files via scp onto it.
> I got a kernel panic which looked quite similar to the one reported here
> (kmem_map too small):
> <http://www.archivum.info/freebsd-fs@freebsd.org/2009-04/00071/FreeBSD_7.=
2-RC1_-_ZFS_related_kernel_panic_quot_kmem_map_too_small_quot>
>=20
> I have a dual cpu dual core opteron system with 4GB of RAM and a 3-disk
> raidz1. I took out the memory settings from loader.conf as suggested in
> UPDATING. I did not yet upgrade zpool nor zfs version (would that help?).
> Are there any known issues or any further hints what might cause the
> crash? I copied the files again, but this time everything went fine.

If this is amd64, add vm.kmem_size=3D"4G" to your loader.conf back.

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