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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:49:38 +0100
From:      Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: em0 freezes on ZFS server
Message-ID:  <4B87C362.3040409@digiware.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20100226134429.041ea6f2.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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On 26-2-2010 13:44, Gerrit Kühn wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:38 +0100 Gerrit Kühn
> <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>  wrote about Re: em0 freezes on ZFS server:
>
> GK>  JC>  Note how close the "current" value is to that of "total".  I'm not
> GK>  JC>  too surprised you're seeing what you are as a result of this.
> GK>  JC>  What on earth is this machine doing at all times?
>
> GK>  Is there any way I could find out what is actually using these buffers?
>
> Sorry for replying to my own email:
> At least in my case I found out what is eating the buffers: nfsd does!
> The buffers stop increasing as soon as I stop nfsd. However, they start
> increasing as soon as I start nfsd again.
> Are there any ideas how to fix this? Downgrading back to 7-stable is not
> really an easy task as far as I know, and I need the server to run without
> having to reboot it once for twice a day...

Mine went up something like 200 mbufs, so that is not that significantly.

Let alone that I prefer not to do so, since the whole box is on ZFS.

--WjW




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