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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:59:21 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A trio of problems
Message-ID:  <gpoacd$boc$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <D9950E0E-453C-464F-8C94-E5073AA99EE7@gid.co.uk>
References:  <gpmnba$3na$1@ger.gmane.org> <D9950E0E-453C-464F-8C94-E5073AA99EE7@gid.co.uk>

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Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
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> On 16 Mar 2009, at 23:28, Ivan Voras wrote:
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>> 1. I'm trying to start 1000 jails for demonstration purposes (a
>> presentation), but I can reliably panic the kernel when somewhere
>> between 400 and 600 jails are started. [etc]
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> On 17 Mar 2009, at 01:37, Ivan Voras wrote:
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>> ZFS doesn't influence it - the same problem happens without ZFS on the=

>> system (though I can create a few hundred more jails without ZFS befor=
e
>> the kernel panics...).
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> In which case, given how memory-hungry ZFS is, it looks like your
> problem is with exhausting some memory resource.

It did occur to me but if it is, why didn't it fail in an obvious way
(e.g. kmem_map panics with ZFS), and how to tune it so if works? This is
AMD64 with 0.5 GB - 1 GB memory in the Free bin when it panics.



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