In message <[email protected]>, Slawa Olhovchenkov writes: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > In message <[email protected]>, Slawa Olhovchenkov writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 08:13:00PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > > > > > In message <[email protected]>, qroxan > a > > > > writes > > > > : > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I have an old i386 machine running r364479. After upgrading to > > > > > r367045, running kldload zfs.ko freezes the whole system. > > > > > > > > > > I also tried to replace the 4GB memory with another 2GB one > > > > > and kldload zfs.ko works without freezing the machine. > > > > > > > > ZFS ARC stresses memory. I've found a number of bad RAM chips over the > > > > years using ZFS. > > > > > > > > The OpenZFS upgrade significantly changed how it manages ARC. It's like > ly > > > > that prior to the OpenZFS upgrade your memory wasn't stressed to the po > int > > > > of failure. You can try to mask the problem by reducing your RAM clock > rate > > > > > > > or or increase one of the other latency settings in your BIOS. However, > > > > > again, this only masks an already weak RAM chip. > > > > > > Sounds like performance drop and regression > > > > How so. Please explain. > > More stresses memory usually refers to performance penalty. > Usually way for better performance is reduce memory access.
The reason filesystems (UFS, ZFS, EXT4, etc.) cache is to avoid disk accesses. Nanoseconds vs milliseconds. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <[email protected]> FreeBSD UNIX: <[email protected]> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <[email protected]> Web: https://nwtime.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
