FreeBSD 10.1 Memory Exhaustion

[Adrian Chadd]

On 15 July 2015 at 14:58, Philip Murray <pmurray at nevada.net.nz> wrote:
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>> On 13/07/2015, at 11:58 pm, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
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>> Put this on your box and see if the problem goes away.... :-)
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594
>>
>
> Is there a concise explanation of why this hasn’t been merged into -CURRENT?
>
> I know there are concerns that it isn’t the proper fix, but I can’t find any discussion of the
> argument against it. Only people with positive reports about it fixing people’s problems.
>
> Sorry if this keeps getting asked but I couldn’t find a good reason why not documented
> anywhere, which could form a reason not to use the patch in certain situations.
>
> (I have about 24TB about to go into production on ZFS, so I’m particularly interested in it)
>
> Cheers

There were concerns that it only fixes a subset of issues by moving
the problem elsewhere. I'd have to go re-check what's going on.

Was there ever a phabricator review for it?


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