ARC size constantly shrinks, then ZFS slows down extremely

Attila Nagy bra at fsn.hu
Mon Oct 5 07:24:19 UTC 2009


On 10/02/09 20:45, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:59:03AM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
>   
>> Backing out this change from the 8-STABLE kernel:
>> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c?r1=191901&r2=191902
>>
>> makes it survive about half and hour of IMAP searching. Of course only 
>> time will tell whether this helps in the long run, but so far 10/10 
>> tries succeeded to kill the machine with this method...
>>     
>
> Could you try this patch:
>
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/arc.c.4.patch
>   
Sure. But before that, a report with the above modification: the machine 
has survived some days, then started to behave strangely. Meaning I 
could ping it, I could log in to the IMAP service (running from ZFS), 
read some mails, but not all.
I could not access it via ssh (which runs from UFS), but an already 
running top from a different session was alive. It showed:
last pid: 11272;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    up 3+15:21:13  
09:11:43
149 processes: 1 running, 143 sleeping, 1 zombie, 4 waiting
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.8% idle
Mem: 234M Active, 197M Inact, 559M Wired, 111M Buf, 440K Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 976K Used, 4095M Free

  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
78492 root        1  44    0  4700K  2156K CPU1    1   5:37  0.00% top
92343 root        1  44    0  4132K  1576K nanslp  1   4:12  0.00% gstat
13401 root        1  44    0  1528K   456K piperd  0   2:19  0.00% 
readproctitl
12679 root        1  44    0  3932K  1236K vmwait  1   2:12  0.00% zpool
35988    125      4  45    0 16892K  5968K sigwai  0   1:53  0.00% 
milter-greyl
25656 root        1  45    0  1536K   564K getblk  0   1:45  0.00% supervise
25798 root        1  44    0  1536K   564K vmwait  0   1:44  0.00% supervise
28406 root        1  44    0  1536K   544K vmwait  0   1:43  0.00% supervise
30226 root        1  44    0  1536K   544K vmwait  0   1:43  0.00% supervise
35401 root        1  44    0  1536K   544K vmwait  0   1:42  0.00% supervise
29203 root        1  44    0  1536K   544K vmwait  0   1:42  0.00% supervise
21629    389      6  44    0 91664K 41892K ucond   0   1:02  0.00% slapd
72283     60      1  44    0 80972K  1948K select  1   0:34  0.00% idled
98960 root        1  44    0  9396K  2544K select  1   0:32  0.00% sshd
 1550 root        1  44    0  3340K   940K vmwait  1   0:32  0.00% syslogd
 5463    125      1  44    0  6924K  2036K vmwait  0   0:27  0.00% qmgr
54193 root        1  44    0  9396K  2516K select  0   0:22  0.00% sshd

I could not log into the console, it didn't even gave a "user name" 
filed after hitting enter. Strange.

I will try the patch.




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