Hi Eric,
Everything Mark said.
We as a customer ran into this running MySQL on a Thumper (and T2000).
We solved it on the Thumper by limiting the ARC to 4GB:
/etc/system: set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x1 #4GB
This has worked marvelously over the past 50 days. The ARC stays
around 5-6GB now. L
This issue has been discussed a number of times in this forum.
To summerize:
ZFS (specifically, the ARC) will try to use *most* of the systems
available memory to cache file system data. The default is to
max out at physmem-1GB (i.e., use all of physical memory except
for 1GB). In the face of m
Could someone please provide comments or solution for this?
Subject: Solaris 10 ZFS problems with database applications
HELIOS TechInfo #106
Tue, 20 Feb 2007
Solaris 10 ZFS problems with database applications
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