From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 21:20:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC321065675 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marco@tolstoy.tols.org) Received: from tolstoy.tols.org (tolstoy.tols.org [IPv6:2a02:898:0:20::57:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E58D8FC1A for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tolstoy.tols.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tolstoy.tols.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7CLKjtC062810 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:45 GMT (envelope-from marco@tolstoy.tols.org) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at tolstoy.tols.org Received: (from marco@localhost) by tolstoy.tols.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7CLKjql062809 for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:45 GMT (envelope-from marco) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:45 +0000 From: Marco van Tol To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100812212045.GB62440@tolstoy.tols.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <20100810214418.GA28288@tolstoy.tols.org> <20100811014919.GA52992@icarus.home.lan> <20100811192537.GA44635@tolstoy.tols.org> <20100811214302.GB44635@tolstoy.tols.org> <20100812205625.GA79515@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100812205625.GA79515@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on tolstoy.tols.org Subject: Re: zfs arc - just take it all and be good to me X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:50 -0000 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:56:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Aug-11 21:43:02 +0000, Marco van Tol wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Artem Belevich wrote: > >> There's a hack floating around that attempts to force kernel into > >> freeing up memory from inactive/cache lists before draining ARC. It > >> does help a bit with this issue, but it's still a hack. > > > >That makes sense Artem, thanks. I think you mean the posts with the > >perl one-liner I used in my tests as well. (perl variable assignment of > >1.5GB in the posts their version) >=20 > I suspect Artem is referring to his patch at http://pastebin.com/ZCkzkWcs > which I have tweaked somewhat (see the last patch in=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D146410 ). >=20 > Whilst these patches _are_ hacks, they seem to do a good job of > making ZFS and UFS play together. Oh, goodlooking! Thank you, I'll keep it in mind the coming period for when I run into a system that has both filesystems. Thanks! Marco --=20 Linux is for windows haters, BSD for Unix lovers --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxkZa0ACgkQbdVEUcCKvoL7VgCcCL0+445yquhIwikVKcOMCt/k qDUAniRFcFFUxO44KP3FP2QTXhwWRfxl =PYaQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--