From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 14 14:38:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC931106566B; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B728FC1A; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:38:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=sVhNVL3m-NYA:10 a=5oGaD+IacabtnYYqBVNCkQ==:17 a=eZxGFqpGKB3kEt-yao8A:9 a=T97hir-GE-oH7i4-KIz4rb9DmjQA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 75.87.219.217 Received: from [75.87.219.217] ([75.87.219.217:59557] helo=haran.polands.org) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 95/E9-10402-65C2F4B4; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:38:15 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0EEcEkG092008; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:38:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 209.103.214.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:38:14 -0600 Message-ID: <27117211dd662bcf93055f4351243396.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: References: <8418112cdfada93d83ca0cb5307c1d21.squirrel@email.polands.org> <9bbcef731001131035x604cdea1t81b14589cb10ad25@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef731001131157h256c4d14mbb241bc4326405f8@mail.gmail.com> <3aa09fd8723749d1fa65f1b9a6faac60.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:38:14 -0600 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Ivan Voras" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:38:17 -0000 On Thu, January 14, 2010 03:17, Ivan Voras wrote: > Doug Poland wrote: >>>> >>> Ok, I re-ran with same config, but this time monitoring the >>> sysctls you requested* ( and the rest I was watching ): >>> >> I failed to mention that >> >> kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size >> >> seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00 and 180,000,000 bytes >> during this last run > > Is that with or without panicking? > with a panic > If the system did panic then it looks like the problem is a memory > leak somewhere else in the kernel, which you could confirm by > monitoring vmstat -z. > I'll give that a try. Am I looking for specific items in vmstat -z? arc*, zil*, zfs*, zio*? Please advise. -- Regards, Doug