Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:32:29 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Pascal Braun, Continum" <pascal.braun@continum.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS crashing while zfs recv in progress Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf-Hzz-RpJmsyucWHAXOr0%2B3B7O8TrMkQq9f1dT5toq7SA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <803931797.154623.1369818240686.JavaMail.root@continum.net> References: <631084870.154593.1369817992337.JavaMail.root@continum.net> <803931797.154623.1369818240686.JavaMail.root@continum.net>
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Pascal Braun, Continum <pascal.braun@continum.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to send a zfs pool from an old freebsd 9.0 installation to a n= ew machine with freebsd 9.1. The pool is quite heavy (about 16TB, lots of s= napshots) and the receiving side keeps crashing on me. The command used to = transfer (run on the old 9.0 installation): > zfs send -R tank@snapshot | ssh 10.10.xx.xx zfs recv -F -d -v tank > > > After a few hours the system stops all writing and I can't start any new = processes. Processes still running like 'zpool iostat' are still working, o= r at least it is still reporting something. To me it looks like the filesys= tem just disappeared. Unfortunately I'm running root on zfs so I don't have= any logs about this. > The only message I sometimes find on the console are about not being able= to write to swap, which is also on zfs. > This could be where your problem is happening. While you can create a swap vol on ZFS, that swap vol also requires available memory from the system to perform the swap. As was suggested, try using a dedicated disk / partition as your swap volume. > > Do you have any ideas? I don't even know where to start. > > > regards, Pascal > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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