Swapfile on ZFS & Deadlock
Benjamin Close
Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com
Fri Jun 15 13:30:30 UTC 2007
Hi All,
Whilst running out of memory compiling Xorg (scanPCI is a killer) I
discovered a quick way to deadlock the system:
dd if=/dev/zero of=somefileonzfs bs=something count=something
mdconfig -a -f something
swapon /dev/md0
Then do something that needs swap.. instant deadlock. The system is
still responsive but all disk access become hung.
Known issue? If so is there a way we can warn users/prevent users from
doing it?
Cheers,
Benjamin
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