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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:11:27 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS and Wired memory, again
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014-02-28 20:42 GMT+02:00 Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>:
> > On 2014-02-28 12:31, Anton Sayetsky wrote:
> >>
> >> 2014-02-28 13:47 GMT+02:00 Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> +1 from me, FreeBSD 10, uma=0
> >>>>
> >>>> 52 processes:  2 running, 49 sleeping, 1 zombie
> >>>> CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.4% interrupt, 99.6% idle
> >>>> Mem: 31M Active, 16K Inact, 3352M Wired, 17M Cache, 48M Free
> >>>> ARC: 1838M Total, 110M MFU, 18M MRU, 548K Anon, 1876M Header, 75M
> Other
> >>>> Swap: 4096M Total, 126M Used, 3969M Free, 3% Inuse
> >>>>
> >>>> Machine is plain dead. Running database or squid or anything causes
> >>>> excessive swapping. This is the state when I disabled all payload,
> with
> >>>> everything started swap goes to 500M and machine is burning disks.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I wonder do you use any zfs tuning? Like max arc size? Wonder if
> setting
> >>> that to a reasonable amount would help.
> >>
> >> Please read carefully my first message. No any tuning (configs
> >> posted), and problem is not that ZFS uses big amount of memory. I'm
> >> experiencing exactly one problem - Wired mem is significantly larger
> >> than ARC.
> >> E.g. if my ARC size is 2048M, I'm expecting that Wired will not
> >> consume more than ARC+~150M.
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> >
> > Other pieces of the system used wired memory......
> >
> > Have you investigated that as well?
> And again - this has detailed explanation in the first letter. In short:
> 1. I've booted the system without any memory hungry services (only
> basic like cron, powerd). Wired is 95M, ARC is 25M.
> 2. Then I started reading ZFS pool (tar cpf /dev/null
> /pool/mountpoint). ARC - 2048M, Wired -  ~2800M.
> WTF? Who eats more than 700M of kernel memory? Do you really think
> that powerd or cron can do this?


Without question, cron could do it.

-- 
Adam



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