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Date:      Fri, 1 May 2015 15:58:49 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Martijn <martijn@hostage.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS stuck on write
Message-ID:  <CAFHbX1%2B8gYSZ%2Bqu2PkbwBo1Wv5vQwwXGiHueLwHYe1nYnLr1uQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150501130924.GA12031@kobol.datajust.com>
References:  <20150430134659.GA4950@kobol.office.hostage.nl> <20150430161902.4868094c@robert-notebook> <20150430143017.GA5573@kobol.office.hostage.nl> <20150501130924.GA12031@kobol.datajust.com>

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On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Martijn <martijn@hostage.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been able to borrow a brand new server from my supplier, put the HDD's in
> and all my problems are gone.
>
> I'm gonna look into this with more detail, because i still want to pin-point
> the exact problem and if its really due to broken hardware.
>
> Is my assumption true that the boost in memory (the new machine has 32GB
> instead of 24GB) also could be the cause that everything works again? If i
> remember correctly a lot sysctl settings have their defaults based on the total
> amount of ram. I'm still wondering if there's some kind of setting(s) that
> would help if there's just too many filesystems+snapshots around. Or is that
> not something that could have been the cause of these problems?
>

Stick "hw.physmem=24G" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Do you have
problems on the new server?

Cheers

Tom



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