> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:53:55 +1100 > From: Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > On 2010-Mar-09 10:15:53 +0100, Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> wrote: > >Over the past couple of months, I've more or less regularly observed > >machines having more and more processes stuck in the zfs wchan. The > >processes never recover from that, > > How long have you waited? > > There seems to be a problem with low free memory handling that causes ZFS > to turn into cold molasses. The work-around is to run a program that > allocates a decent size chunk of memory and then exits. The original > suggestion was something like: > perl -e '@x = (0) x 1000000;' > I've written a short program that allocates and dirties ~100MB and then > exits and run it from cron.
Sigh! I found it. I build my systems without NIS and I had the stock nsswitch.conf file. Fixed. /me banging my head against the desk. Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
