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Date:      Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:37 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@RawFedDogs.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions E-Mail List <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: "New" user with a possible ZFS problem
Message-ID:  <4873D449.2040503@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807021906460.19153@Blaidd-Drwg.RawFedDogs.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807021643150.19153@Blaidd-Drwg.RawFedDogs.net> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807021906460.19153@Blaidd-Drwg.RawFedDogs.net>

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Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> 
>> Saturday I finally found one of those "round tuits" and switched my 
>> home PC from Debian to FreeBSD.
> 
> I probably should have mentioned that the box in question is a slightly 
> older hyperthreaded Intel Pentium 4 box, an HP m260n to be exact, with 
> 3GB of RAM.

You may be running out of memory.  Increase kmem_size until it goes 
away.  I use 1500M on my systems, which are stable.  Yes, ZFS is a 
memory hog.

Kris



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