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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:28:26 +0400
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Luke Marsden <luke-lists@hybrid-logic.co.uk>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, team@hybrid-logic.co.uk
Subject:   Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question
Message-ID:  <20120301142826.GG97848@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20120227181436.GA49667@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <1330081612.13430.39.camel@pow> <20120227181436.GA49667@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> >      * what is the community's advice for production machines running
> >        ZFS on FreeBSD, is manually limiting the ARC cache (to ensure
> >        that there's enough actually free memory to handle a spike in
> >        application memory usage) the best solution to this
> >        spike-in-memory-means-crash problem?
> 
> Are you swapping onto a ZFS vdev?  If so, change back to a raw (or
> geom) device - swapping to ZFS is known to be problematic.  If you

I see kernel stuck when swapping to ZFS. This is only known problem?



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