zpool scrub tank && high file system activity caused crash

[Bert JW Regeer]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 19:46 , Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with GENERIC on a AMD XP Athlon  
>> 3500+ with
>> 1267 MB of ram, and a GigBit NIC. I am testing out ZFS just for the  
>> hell of
>> it, I know, 32 bit is not suggested and runs badly, but it does  
>> what it
>> needs to do.
>>
>> I was copying large amounts of data for backup purposes from my  
>> MacBook Pro
>> to the machine over FTP. At the time I was looking around the man  
>> page for
>> zpool, and figured I'd run a zpool scrub just to see how badly it  
>> affects
>> performance. It affects it in that it takes down the machine with a  
>> dump.
>>
>> keyhole# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0
>> [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/ 
>> libthread_db.so:
>> Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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>> Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
>> panic: vm_page_insert: offset already allocated
>> cpuid = 0
>> Uptime: 10h58m58s
>> Physical memory: 1267 MB
>> Dumping 335 MB: 320 304 288 272 256 240 224 208 192 176 160 144 128  
>> 112 96
>> 80 64 48 32 16
>
> Out of curiosity, have you done any tuning on this machine?
> Specifically some of the stuff mentioned on the wiki?
>
> -- WXS

I had not. I changed the size the kernel was allowed to be to at least  
512 M as that is recommended, and I got the same panic as the first  
email I sent out (this time as seen in dmesg -a), I also ran out of  
space on /var so it did not save the vmcore :(.

I am going to wait till I get my 64 bit system up and running before  
messing with ZFS again. I don't think the amount of ram I have in that  
machine would be enough with some of the other stuff it will have to  
do as well, if I let the kernel eat up to a GB.

Bert JW Regeer