Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:08:58 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange (?) hangs with ZFS/rsync. Message-ID: <18588.64570.786730.812483@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <g7iaug$ltg$2@ger.gmane.org> References: <18880785.post@talk.nabble.com> <g7iaug$ltg$2@ger.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras writes: > Maximillian Dornseif wrote: > > I have a ZFS based backup server which rsyncs from a dozen other machines. > > There is only a single rsync active for any point in time and the system is > > used for nothing else. It has an amd64 kernel and 4GB RAM. I tried to follow > > the ZFS tuning guide. > > > > For a few weeks the machine works well. Since monday it rsync always hangs > > when fetching a big logfile from a remote machine. > > > > The two rsync processes are in state "zfs:&b" and "zfs:lo" and can't be > > killed. > > The other strange thing is that the system is reporting 3367M (!) wired > > memory. > > These look like well known problems with ZFS (see > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems). A new version of the ZFS port > is currently under development, if you want to try it, you need a > 8-CURRENT machine and this patch: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2008-July/004887.html > > People have reported that the new patch resolves hangs such as yours. Not to be a party pooper, but on an arguably underconfigured server (2GB RAM, dual core AMD, amd64), moving to -CURRENT and applying the new patch actually required that I tune it with an even lower arc_max than I had been getting away with on the -STABLE zfs with the same hardware. My testing (described on this list a week or two back) is admittedly unscientific and it may be that the -STABLE configuration was already skating on thin ice but it's certainly not the case that the subsystem now autotunes itself on limited hardware. But, with kernel mem and arc configured as many folks have described, both versions run nicely in spite of anything I've thrown at them and the zfs feature set is great. Thanks again to Pawel and all involved! g.
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