From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 02:39:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651B816A404; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:39:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AAE13C487; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:39:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 41ABE45B26; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:39:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (154.81.datacomsa.pl [195.34.81.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D744569A; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:39:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:38:57 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Craig Boston , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20070410023857.GZ76673@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <4617A3A6.60804@kasimir.com> <20070407165759.GG8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070407180319.GH8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070407191517.GN63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070407212413.GK8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070410003505.GA8189@nowhere> <20070410003837.GB8189@nowhere> <20070410011125.GB38535@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070410013034.GC8189@nowhere> <20070410014233.GD8189@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dZHW955j1vPFHE0Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070410014233.GD8189@nowhere> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:39:17 -0000 --dZHW955j1vPFHE0Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:42:33PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > > Even the vm.zone breakdown seems to be gone in current so apparently my > > knowledge of such things is becoming obsolete :) >=20 > But vmstat -m still works >=20 > ... >=20 > solaris 145806 122884K - 15319671 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,40= 96 > ... >=20 > Whoa! That's a lot of kernel memory. Meanwhile... >=20 > kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size: 33554944 > (which is just barely above vfs.zfs.arc_min) >=20 > So I don't think it's the arc cache (yeah I know that's redundant) that > is the problem. Seems like something elsewhere in zfs is allocating > large amounts of memory and not letting it go, and even the cache is > having to shrink to its minimum size due to the memory pressure. ARC and ZIO are the biggest memory consumers and they are somehow connected. I just committed changes that should stabilize ZFS in this regard. Could you try them? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --dZHW955j1vPFHE0Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGvjBForvXbEpPzQRAjGfAKCfnQAjCxkZ5vawLf9vxI++38CI8wCdGvwt uHR2Eu0WmhvO3KBsE/qkJ60= =ek/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dZHW955j1vPFHE0Q--