Fw: Re: ZFS continuously growing [SOLVED]

[krad]

2009/9/3 Robert Eckardt <rol at robert-eckardt.de>

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:01:28 +0100, krad wrote
> > 2009/9/3 Robert Eckardt <rol at robert-eckardt.de>
> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:09:19 +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Robert Eckardt
> > > <Robert.Eckardt at robert-eckardt.de> wrote:
> >
> > > > Do I have to be worried?
> > > > Is there a memory leak in the current ZFS implementation?
> > > > Why is used space growing slower than free space is shrinking?
> > > > Is there some garbage collection needed in ZFS?
> > > >
> > > > Besides, although the backup server has 3 GB RAM I had to tune
> arc_max
> > > > to 150MB to copy the backed-up data from an 2.8TB ZFS (v6) to the
> > > > 4.5 TB ZFS (v13) by "zfs send|zfs recv" without kmalloc panic.
> > > > (I.e., the defaults algorithm was not sufficient.)
> > >
>
> > do a " zfs list -t all"
> >
> > you will see all snapshots and zvols then as well
>
> Uups, sorry for asking.
> Everything o.k. after "zfs destroy big/big at backup"  :-(
>
> I hope the info on arc_max will stay useful.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> --
> Dr. Robert Eckardt    ---     Robert.Eckardt at Robert-Eckardt.de
>
>
There was a change between zfs v7 and v13. IN 7 when you did a zfs list it
would show snapshots, after 13 it didnt unless you supplied the switch. It
still catches me out as we have a right mix of zfs version at work, so dont
feel to bad 8)