From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 12:47:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9721065673 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:47:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.ip6.digiware.nl [IPv6:2001:4cb8:1:106::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE748FC17 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4B9153433; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:47:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pwOpq1Fg60sL; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:47:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.67] (opteron [192.168.10.67]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB0015342F; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:47:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B87C362.3040409@digiware.nl> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:49:38 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen Organization: Digiware User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= References: <4B86F384.3010308@digiware.nl> <2a41acea1002251459v40e8c6ddxd0437decbada4594@mail.gmail.com> <4B8795B1.4020006@digiware.nl> <20100226120339.GB17798@icarus.home.lan> <20100226133138.d47dd080.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20100226134429.041ea6f2.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <20100226134429.041ea6f2.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: em0 freezes on ZFS server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:47:46 -0000 On 26-2-2010 13:44, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:38 +0100 Gerrit Kühn > 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