From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Jul 15 22:58:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4839A3E17 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABE361EB9 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by ietj16 with SMTP id j16so44441311iet.0 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:58:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=O5iwp6c9+VYpHDtxRLG1TMTjLS4/y64uGywJhvJBx2o=; b=RNZYEaWT0GVzf3CGNmlM8IYvnefxzA9GxgWEV2qdFfUmWh3sKd09jIIB5hIHKuevZY dYF6BtP60S/OdqGAzEEDt7IrlsEEitsqZIbi8/Hla/qx8ZtA25zfljhNWDIsbWIxKbTn fN+t15mkCpTnp6unDWHi1oCqxYjgqSMQChPh66yVmNMQ/DC6/ajloteeJMv3ItJ8SfEU Ye/h63cEzDpMlZOq3WD13lYGJr0zPNSy6ABwX6VTcpYCrqP2zU/74dDZ+0g+IWOLJu94 h9mWDSSdU5QXDB6Ksnpj12JU/D8pfuIle73PTxK9p96u43bbaGqOlhroTqACVyTkJ5bO A8Mg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.35.144 with SMTP id j138mr8895711ioj.105.1437001084704; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.38.133 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:58:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <55A3A800.5060904@denninger.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:58:04 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1 Memory Exhaustion From: Adrian Chadd To: Philip Murray Cc: Karl Denninger , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:58:06 -0000 On 15 July 2015 at 14:58, Philip Murray wrote: > >> On 13/07/2015, at 11:58 pm, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> Put this on your box and see if the problem goes away.... :-) >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D187594 >> > > Is there a concise explanation of why this hasn=E2=80=99t been merged int= o -CURRENT? > > I know there are concerns that it isn=E2=80=99t the proper fix, but I can= =E2=80=99t find any discussion of the > argument against it. Only people with positive reports about it fixing pe= ople=E2=80=99s problems. > > Sorry if this keeps getting asked but I couldn=E2=80=99t find a good reas= on why not documented > anywhere, which could form a reason not to use the patch in certain situa= tions. > > (I have about 24TB about to go into production on ZFS, so I=E2=80=99m par= ticularly interested in it) > > Cheers There were concerns that it only fixes a subset of issues by moving the problem elsewhere. I'd have to go re-check what's going on. Was there ever a phabricator review for it? -a