kern/187594: [zfs] [patch] ZFS ARC behavior problem and fix

[Andriy Gapon]

on 16/05/2014 08:35 Nagy, Attila said the following:
> On 05/15/14 17:30, Karl Denninger wrote:
>>     I have now been running the latest delta as posted 26 March -- it is=20
>>   coming up on two months now, has been stable here and I've seen several=20
>>   positive reports and no negative ones on impact for others. Performance=20
>>   continues to be "as expected."
>>     Is there an expectation on this being merged forward and/or MFC'd?
>>
> Well, the expectation is quite high -at least from my side :-)-.
> We struggle with stable/10 boxes and ZFS since they are introduced in our
> environment, while stable/9 goes nicely under the same workload.
> OS 10 swaps a lot to allow ARC to grow and without swap space, it starts killing
> random processes after 20-30 days, depending on how much RAM it has and how big
> I set the arc_max size (without it, the situation is even worse).
> 
> I wonder, nobody uses stable/10 with ZFS?

Please try to upgrade to r265945 or later.

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Andriy Gapon