Re: ZFS high CPU use after backup and panic on shutdown

From: Trev <freebsd-stable1_at_sentry.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:09:19 UTC
Trev wrote on 25/11/23 2:39 pm:
> I recently updated from source FreeBSD 12-STABLE to FreeBSD 13-STABLE 
> (stable/13-221a60a42: Tue Nov 14 15:36:40 AEDT 2023).
> 
> Ever since, after my ZFS backup to an external USB drive, the system 
> continues to consume 100% of one core of the 2011 Mac mini (i7, 16G).
> 
> Example backup command from my shell script:
> 
> zfs send data/www@${snapshot} | bzip2 > /mnt/zfs-data-www-${snapshot}.bz2
> 
> Neither top, vmstat nor iostat give any clue as to what system process 
> is using 100% of one core. To stop this phenomenon I have to shutdown 
> and reboot the system which I do with "shutdown -r now".
> 
> This always results in a kernel panic:

[CHOMP]

Resolved by updating the source to stable/13-ecb4d2c6e: Sat Nov 25 
11:31:12 AEDT 2023 and rebuilding.

[Also, thanks to Mike Karels for off-list help with top.]