On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:42:33PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > > Even the vm.zone breakdown seems to be gone in current so apparently my > > knowledge of such things is becoming obsolete :) > > But vmstat -m still works > > ... > > solaris 145806 122884K - 15319671 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 > ... > > Whoa! That's a lot of kernel memory. Meanwhile... > > kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size: 33554944 > (which is just barely above vfs.zfs.arc_min) > > So I don't think it's the arc cache (yeah I know that's redundant) that > is the problem. Seems like something elsewhere in zfs is allocating > large amounts of memory and not letting it go, and even the cache is > having to shrink to its minimum size due to the memory pressure. ARC and ZIO are the biggest memory consumers and they are somehow connected. I just committed changes that should stabilize ZFS in this regard. Could you try them? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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