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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:55:22 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic
Message-ID:  <hil1e8$ebs$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <8418112cdfada93d83ca0cb5307c1d21.squirrel@email.polands.org>
References:  <8418112cdfada93d83ca0cb5307c1d21.squirrel@email.polands.org>

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Doug Poland wrote:

> So the question is, can ZFS be tuned to not panic or hang no matter
> what I throw at it?

Apparently not.

 > I began with a system with no tunables in /boot/loader.conf
 > (vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max).  Then I tried increasing
 > vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max a GB at a time, until I was at 4GB.

Try adding vfs.zfs.arc_max=512M to /boot/loader.conf.




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