Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Juergen Keil
> >> Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of > >> memory. > > > > Oh, 128MB... > > Also the funny part is that it takes the machine about a second to freeze > and I have to power cycle. I can't Stop-A, the machine becomes totally > unresponsive. Never seem that be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Edmundo Ocalagan
TED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of memory. Oh, 128MB... ZFS' *minimum* ARC cache size is fixed at 64MB,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-27 Thread Edmundo Ocalagan
no UFS works fine, as well as VXFS 4.1. Is this something that Sun will improve in the future?.. Edmundo - Original Message - From: "Juergen Keil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Juergen Keil wrote: Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of memory. Oh, 128MB... Btw, does anyone know if there are any minimum hardware (physical memory) requirements for using ZFS? It seems as if ZFS wan't tested that much on machines with 256MB (or less)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Joseph Mocker
I have reported similar issues with ZFS taking most of my 2G in one system and 3G in another. I have been told to add a swap partition which I normally do not do. It mostly has cleared up the problem however I am still bugged by needing to do that in the first place. ZFS memory management seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Juergen Keil
> Sounds familiar. Yes it is a small system a Sun blade 100 with 128MB of > memory. Oh, 128MB... ZFS' *minimum* ARC cache size is fixed at 64MB, so ZFS' ARC cache should already grab slightly more than half of the memory installed in that machine. Leaving less than 64MB of free memory on your

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Mark Maybee
This is: 6483887 without direct management, arc ghost lists can run amok The fix I have in mind is to control the ghost lists as part of the arc_buf_hdr_t allocations. If you want to test out my fix, I can send you some diffs... -Mark Juergen Keil wrote: Jürgen Keil writes: > > ZFS 11.0 on S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Juergen Keil
> Jürgen Keil writes: > > > ZFS 11.0 on Solaris release 06/06, hangs systems when > > > trying to copy files from my VXFS 4.1 file system. > > > any ideas what this problem could be?. > > > > What kind of system is that? How much memory is installed? > > > > I'm able to hang an Ultra 60

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Edmundo Ocalagan
. Thanks for you response. Edmundo - Original Message - From: "Roch - PAE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jürgen Keil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy Jür

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Roch - PAE
Jürgen Keil writes: > > ZFS 11.0 on Solaris release 06/06, hangs systems when > > trying to copy files from my VXFS 4.1 file system. > > any ideas what this problem could be?. > > What kind of system is that? How much memory is installed? > > I'm able to hang an Ultra 60 with 256 MByte

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
> ZFS 11.0 on Solaris release 06/06, hangs systems when > trying to copy files from my VXFS 4.1 file system. > any ideas what this problem could be?. What kind of system is that? How much memory is installed? I'm able to hang an Ultra 60 with 256 MByte of main memory, simply by writing big files