Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:23 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +0000, Luke Marsden wrote: > > I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > > the following is a true statement: > > > > a

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:23 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +0000, Luke Marsden wrote: > > I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > > the following is a true statement: > > > > a

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
Thanks for your email, Chuck. > > Conversely, if a page *does not* occur in the resident > > memory of any process, it must not occupy any space in the active + > > inactive lists. > > Hmm...if a process gets swapped out entirely, the pages for it will be moved > to the cache list, flushed, and

FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
hich case please educate me ;-) or is there a real problem here? If so how can I dig deeper to help uncover/fix it? Best Regards, Luke Marsden [1] lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-February/013775.html [2] https://gist.github.com/1988153 -- CTO, Hybrid Logic +447791750420 | +1-415-449-

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-02 Thread Luke Marsden
Page: 7 hybrid@node5:~$ uname -a FreeBSD node5.hybridlogiclabs.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/

Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-02-24 Thread Luke Marsden
making FreeBSD awesome :-) Best Regards, Luke Marsden -- 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, s

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-12 Thread Luke Marsden
> 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,

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-20 Thread Luke Marsden
; intervals, and keep several scripts (or rsync) reading the target > dataset files and just copying them to another place in the usual, > "classic" way. (example: tar cf - . | ( cd /destination && tar xf -) > Is there a PR for this? I'd like to see it address

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-18 Thread Luke Marsden
he links to the backports for 8.2, Jeremy, I'll include those in our next system image. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Phone: +447791750420 ___ free

Guaranteed kernel panic with ZFS + nullfs

2011-03-16 Thread Luke Marsden
lem, Hybrid Logic Ltd might be able to fund a small bounty for a fix. Contact me off-list if you can help in this way. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Phone: +441172232002 / +16179496062 __

ZFS hanging with simultaneous "zfs recv" and "zfs umount -f"

2011-02-01 Thread Luke Marsden
and submitting a bug report will help... I will do this in due course, but don't have time right now -- just wanted to get this bug report out there first in case there's an obvious fix. Thank you for supporting ZFS on FreeBSD!! -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web:

ZFS hanging with simultaneous "zfs recv" and "zfs umount -f"

2011-02-01 Thread Luke Marsden
and submitting a bug report will help... I will do this in due course, but don't have time right now -- just wanted to get this bug report out there first in case there's an obvious fix. Thank you for supporting ZFS on FreeBSD!! -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web:

Virtio drivers for FreeBSD on KVM

2010-12-30 Thread Luke Marsden
ivers, combined with the NetBSD code, as starting point for an implementation? My company might soon be in a position to sponsor the work to get this completed and available at some point in FreeBSD 8. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's involved, or who might like to be. -- Bes

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-30 Thread Luke Marsden
r prompt. If it works, add hw.mca.enabled="0" > in /boot/loader.conf to make it permanent. MCA does not make any > sense in emulation any way. Awesome, this allows us to boot 8.1R on Linux KVM with AMD hardware! Thank you very much. This has just doubled our number of avail

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-30 Thread Luke Marsden
he VM and send you the VNC credentials. My email address is: luke [at] hybrid-logic.co.uk Or you can catch me on Skype at luke.marsden. I'm in GMT+1. I look forward to hearing from you ;-) -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
debug this as necessary. As a reference point, 8.0R runs fine on this particular infrastructure: Linux KVM on AMD hardware. More detail to follow. Thank you. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting based on FreeB

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 15:24 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 27/09/2010 14:45 Luke Marsden said the following: > > Hi FreeBSD-stable, > > > > I'm having problems booting 8.1R on a KVM virtualised host backed on AMD > > hardware. It works flawlessly on Intel

Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
py to give developers access to some paid instances on ElasticHosts where this problem occurs, if it helps debugging it. (It works fine in ElasticHosts' lon-p and sat-p data centres, but not in lon-b, and Intel vs. AMD is apparently the difference). -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid