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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:44:16 +0200
From:      "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>
To:        jbsnyder <jbsnyder@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS & Bittorent -> Hang?
Message-ID:  <b41c75520804150244p1f7c9693w180cb3a0d4416e4c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <16491496.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <16447331.post@talk.nabble.com> <ft2fsj$7i7$1@ger.gmane.org> <16491496.post@talk.nabble.com>

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>  > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems
>  >
>  > This looks like #1.
>  >
>
>  Hmm.. I don't think there's a large amount of transfer between UFS & ZFS,
>  unless the client is using /tmp a lot, it should all be on ZFS.
>
>  I noted #4 as well, and therefore tried disabling prefetch.  I can't seem to
>  get it to hang now.  I queued up a bunch of different torrents (full freebsd
>  7 amd64 & i386, some other random things), and they all completed without
>  leading to me being locked out or any processes waiting on zfs.
>
>  I'll try some testing this weekend to see if I can reproduce the lock-up
>  again by re-enabling prefetch.  Perhaps we can confirm that issue?  Should I
>  bother with trying to run CURRENT or should any testing I do be done with
>  STABLE.  I don't see any indication that there might be experimental patches
>  for dealing with this or related issues.

Were you able to reproduce the lock-up by re-enabling prefetch?

-- 
regards
Claus

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Shakespeare



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