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Subject: Re: "New" user with a possible ZFS problem
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Kevin Monceaux wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> 
>> Saturday I finally found one of those "round tuits" and switched my 
>> home PC from Debian to FreeBSD.
> 
> I probably should have mentioned that the box in question is a slightly 
> older hyperthreaded Intel Pentium 4 box, an HP m260n to be exact, with 
> 3GB of RAM.

You may be running out of memory.  Increase kmem_size until it goes 
away.  I use 1500M on my systems, which are stable.  Yes, ZFS is a 
memory hog.

Kris