ZFS stuck on write

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Martijn <martijn at hostage.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been able to borrow a brand new server from my supplier, put the HDD's in
> and all my problems are gone.
>
> I'm gonna look into this with more detail, because i still want to pin-point
> the exact problem and if its really due to broken hardware.
>
> Is my assumption true that the boost in memory (the new machine has 32GB
> instead of 24GB) also could be the cause that everything works again? If i
> remember correctly a lot sysctl settings have their defaults based on the total
> amount of ram. I'm still wondering if there's some kind of setting(s) that
> would help if there's just too many filesystems+snapshots around. Or is that
> not something that could have been the cause of these problems?
>

Stick "hw.physmem=24G" in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Do you have
problems on the new server?

Cheers

Tom