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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:55:22 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@headweb.com>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS deadlock
Message-ID:  <3886278B-F65A-44BD-8307-C9889727FEA3@headweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <47FB2155.1030106@delphij.net>
References:  <0B67CBBD-11CB-44C2-807D-5F00654CDD35@headweb.com> <47FB2155.1030106@delphij.net>

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On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:40 AM, LI Xin wrote:

> For your question: just reboot would be fine, you may want to tune  
> your arc size (to be smaller) and kmem space (to be larger), which  
> would reduce the chance that this would happen, or eliminate it,  
> depending on your workload.

Back online now, with kmem/kmem_max to 1G and arcsize to 512M. Are  
those reasonable on a 2G machine? I think I've read that from  
somewhere, but cannot find that (arc at least) in the TuningGuide now.

>
> This situation is not recoverable and you can trust ZFS that you  
> will not lose data if they are already sync'ed.
>

Actually, I've had a lot of hard crashes lately on this machine (bad  
hw) but not a single time I have lost data (to my knowledge at  
least...). In that regard, comparing to UFS, ZFS is waaay better! :)

> -- 
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
>




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