Re: ZFS patches.

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:33:03 +0200
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:34:00PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
> 
> On Sunday 27 July 2008 14:54:13 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfs_20080727.patch.bz2
> >
> > The patch above contains the most recent ZFS version that could be found
> > in OpenSolaris as of today. Apart for large amount of new functionality,
> > I belive there are many stability (and also performance) improvements
> > compared to the version from the base system.
> 
> nice!
> 
> > Check out OpenSolaris website to find out the differences between base
> > system version and patch version.
> >
> > Please test, test, test. If I get enough positive feedback, I may be
> > able to squeeze it into 7.1-RELEASE, but this might be hard.
> >
> > If you have any questions, please use mailing lists
> > (freebsd-fs_at_FreeBSD.org would be the best).
> 
> Is this supposed to help with memory pressure on i386, too?  Or do the caveats 
> from the wiki still apply?  I heard some anecdotal evidence that it would 
> indeed help.

Yes, it should fix most if not all 'kmem_map too small' panics, at least
from what I tried. Tunning kmem_size is still needed to get better
performance.

> Everybody, remember to use "patch -p0" - just bit me ... again.

Grr, forgot to mention that, sorry.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd_at_FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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