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Date:      Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:47:52 -0500
From:      "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com>
To:        Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Periodic jobs triggering panics in 10.1 and 10.2
Message-ID:  <1449676072.2727.8.camel@michaeleichorn.com>
In-Reply-To: <56680148.9070601@rlwinm.de>
References:  <34FA7D40-8758-460D-AC14-20B21D2E3F8D@ebureau.com> <1449619470.31831.9.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <56680148.9070601@rlwinm.de>

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On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 11:24 +0100, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
> 
> On 09/12/15 01:04, Michael B. Eichorn wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 16:31 -0600, Dustin Wenz wrote:
> > > I suspect this is a zfs bug that is triggered by the access
> > > patterns
> > > in the periodic scripts. There is significant load on the system
> > > when
> > > the scheduled processes start, because all jails execute the same
> > > scripts at the same time.
> > > 
> > > I've been able to alleviate this problem by disabling the
> > > security
> > > scans within the jails, but leave it enabled on the root host.
> > 
> > To avoid the problem of jails all starting things at the same time,
> > use
> > the cron(8) flags -j and -J to set a 'jitter' which will cause cron
> > to
> > sleep for a random period of specified duration (60 sec max). Cron
> > flags can be set using the rc.conf variable 'cron_flags'.
> 
> While jitter would reduce the resource contention a thundering herd
> of 
> cronjobs shouldn't cause the kernel to divide by zero. Spreading the 
> load by introducing jitter to cronjobs might hide the problem, but it
> still needs further analysis.

I concur, used the word 'avoid' in the sense that this was an
improvement to his work-around (which is all that I quoted). I had no
intent to imply that it was the solution to the bug, which of course
deserves solving. Sorry for any confusion, I will try to be more clear
in the future.
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