Re: arc_reclaim_thread running hot

On 9/13/18 8:18 AM, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> This morning, I found the arc_reclaim_thread running hot on my laptop 
> running 12.0-ALPHA5 r338572.
> 
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="4294967296"  <-- 4 GiB
> 
> last pid: 13288;  load averages:  1.32,  1.26,  1.16
> Mem: 456M Active, 3837M Inact, 743M Laundry, 2563M Wired, 167M Free
> ARC: 1131M Total, 304M MFU, 145M MRU, 1344K Anon, 9116K Header, 671M Other
>       89M Compressed, 361M Uncompressed, 4.03:1 Ratio
> 
>     22 root         -8    -      0   256K CPU2     2 309:20  99.75% 
> zfskern{arc_reclaim_thread}
> 
> zfs_arc_meta_strategy is still the default of 1.
> 
> I sampled the thread's stacks with
> 
> for N in `jot 1000`; do procstat -kk 100101; done | grep 100101
> 
> and put the results here:
> 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~vangyzen/arc_reclaim_thread_stacks.txt
> 
> I'm happy to help debug this.  Just let me know what you need.

The thread eventually returned to normal, and I've rebooted the system 
since then, so I no longer have any state.  The thread started running 
hot at 03:00, so maybe the daily periodic run triggered it.  I have to 
work now, but I'll try running the periodic stuff manually when I have time.

Eric