Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:28:26 +0400):

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

>      * what is the community's advice for production machines running
>        ZFS on FreeBSD, is manually limiting the ARC cache (to ensure
>        that there's enough actually free memory to handle a spike in
>        application memory usage) the best solution to this
>        spike-in-memory-means-crash problem?

Are you swapping onto a ZFS vdev?  If so, change back to a raw (or
geom) device - swapping to ZFS is known to be problematic.  If you

I see kernel stuck when swapping to ZFS. This is only known problem?

This is a known problem. Don't use swap on a zpool. If you want fault tollerance use gmirror for the swap paritions instead (make sure the swap partition does end _before_ the last sector of the disk in this case).

Bye,
Alexander.

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