> On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? > > > > I found some older discussions about a resource starvation > > scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system > > running out of memory, trying to swap, yet the ZFS would > > not be accessible until some memory was freed - leading to > > a deadlock. > > > > Is this still the case with RELENG_8? The various Root on > > ZFS guides mention both choices (decicated or gmirror > > partition vs. zvol), yet don't say anything about the respective > > merits or risks. I am aware of the fact that I cannot dump to > > a raidz2 zvol ... > >
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 20:53 +0100, Peter Ankerstål wrote: > I can just tell you I had this problem still in 8.1 and it was a HUGE > problem. System stalled every two weeks or so. Now when the swap is > moved away from zfs it works fine. > I can confirm that this is still a problem on 8.2 and 9.0. -- CTO, Hybrid Logic +447791750420 | +1-415-449-1165 | www.hybrid-cluster.com _______________________________________________ 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"
