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Date:      Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:12:30 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Cc:        Simun Mikecin <numisemis@yahoo.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swapping on ZFS - stability issue
Message-ID:  <46E3D51E.3020504@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070909100041.GA60318@hyperion.scode.org>
References:  <855622.76488.qm@web36601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070908215102.GA8291@hyperion.scode.org> <46E3519E.3040001@FreeBSD.org> <20070909100041.GA60318@hyperion.scode.org>

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Peter Schuller wrote:
> [kris]
>> Please follow the directions in the developers handbook chapter on kernel 
>> debugging to obtain the relevant debugging information.
> 
> Apologies. Aside from the first instance, where the machine had sat
> there for 12+ hours, I never got any panic message or anything like
> that which gives an opportunity for a stacktrace, etc.

Doesn't matter, you can debug deadlocks too :)

> [pjd]
>> This is a known issue also in OpenSolaris. ZFS needs to allocate memory
>> to send I/O request, and when there is no memory, it can't allocate it
>> thus can't swap a process out and free it.
> 
> Ok, so a known issue. Unless someone tells me otherwise I'll update
> the ZFS-on-FreeBSD Wiki pages to warn about this issue (assuming it's
> editable by me).

Thanks.

Kris




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