Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:39:09PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>I don't know if it relevent, but I've seen "kmem_map: too small" panics
> >>when testing my NFSv4 server, ever since about FreeBSD5.4. There is no
> >>problem running the same server code on FreeBSD4 (which is what I still
> >>run in production mode) or OpenBSD3 or 4. If I increase the size of the
> >>map, I can delay the panic for up to about two weeks of hard testing,
> >>but it never goes away. I don't see any evidence of a memory leak during
> >>the several days of testing leading up to the panic. (NFSv4 uses
> >>MALLOC/FREE extensively for state related structures.)
> >
> >Sounds exactly like a memory leak to me.  How did you rule it out?
> Well, I had a little program running on the server that grabbed the
> mti_stats[] out of the kernel and logged them. I had one client mounted
> running thousands of passes of the Connectathon basic tests (one client,
> same activity over and over and over again). For a week, the stats don't
> show any increase in allocation for any type (alloc - free doesn't get
> unreasonably big), then..."panic: kmem_map too small". How many days it
> took to happen would vary with the size of the kernel map, but no evidence
> of a leak prior to the crash. It seemed to be based on the number of times
> MALLOC and FREE were called.

Or something else is leaking.  Really, if there was a problem with
MALLOC/FREE we'd see it.

Kris