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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:34:19 +0200
From:      Adrian Gschwend <ml-ktk@netlabs.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.1 Memory Exhaustion
Message-ID:  <55A4E5AB.8060909@netlabs.org>
In-Reply-To: <55A4D5B7.2030603@freebsd.org>
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On 14.07.15 11:26, Matthew Seaman wrote:


> On 07/13/15 12:58, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> Put this on your box and see if the problem goes away.... :-)

[...]

> I know that you, Karl, and a number of others have been advocating to
> get this patch set committed.  Having now personally run into the sort
> of problems that this addresses I can say that I would very much like to
> see this go in.  Conditional of course on this actually solving the
> problems I and others have been experiencing without introducing
> significant regressions elsewhere. It's only had a day's testing from me
> so far, but it's looking good.  If it survives a week without the system
> locking up, I'll be convinced.

I was the one which posted the message last year which triggered Karl to
analyze it as he saw similar issues:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2014-March/019043.html

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2014-March/019057.html

Since then I run on Karls patch and never had any issue anymore. Not
that my boxes were basically unusable without the patch.

So I'm basically hoping since then that the patch will be committed soon.

>    * The memory exhaustion effect or equivalent memory pressures can be
>      triggered at will
>    * The test doesn't require unfeasibly large resources to run
>    * The behaviour provides a good model for real-world deployments
> 
> Maybe these tests would be too large-scale to run every day in Jenkins,
> but having them available as part of, say, the release process, seems
> like a no-brainer to me.

I wouldn't consider my setup as "unfeasibly large resources", in fact I
triggered it with a bunch of jails running on a machine and providing
various Internet-services for a small Open Source community. I was
always surprised that not more people ran into this issue as I had it
since 8.x.

regards

Adrian






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