On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:08:10PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: > > I'll see if I can confirm behavior on a more recent CURRENT. The above was on > > CURRENT:s from 1-2 months ago in both cases. > > Confirmed on CURRENT cvsup:ed today (2007-09-08). However, the speed > at which swap was filling was much faster - on par with swap on > non-ZFS. But the machine still effectively froze, save the > console/ping, after a few seconds. > > Also, I forgot to say this is all on amd64 machines. This is a known issue also in OpenSolaris. ZFS needs to allocate memory to send I/O request, and when there is no memory, it can't allocate it thus can't swap a process out and free it. -- 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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