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Date:      Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:48:32 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Peter Jeremy <peter@vk2pj.dyndns.org>
Subject:   Re: Odd network issues on ZFS based NFS server
Message-ID:  <20100610114831.GB71432@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20100610110609.GA87243@fupp.net>
References:  <20100608083649.GA77452@fupp.net> <Pine.GSO.4.63.1006081946040.8742@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca> <20100609122517.GA16231@fupp.net> <20100610081710.GA64350@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100610110609.GA87243@fupp.net>

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:06:09PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:17:10PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > I wonder if your system is running out of free RAM.  How would you
> > like to monitor "inactive", "cache" and "free" from either "systat -v"
> > or "vmstat -s" whilst the problem is occurring.
> > 
> > Does something like
> >   perl -e '$x = "x" x 10000000;'
> > temporarily correct the problem?
> 
> While the problem is happening:
> 
> root@unixfile:~# vmstat -s

Can you also provide "vmstat -i" output, both when the issue is
happening and after the machine has been rebooted (but been up for 5-10
minutes)?  Thanks.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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