Quoth Stuart Anderson on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:09:10PM -0700: > Running 102 parallel "zfs destroy -r" commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has > resulted in "No more processes" errors in existing login shells for several > minutes of time, but then fork() calls started working again. However, none > of the zfs destroy processes have actually completed yet, which is odd since > some of the filesystems are trivially small. ... > Is this a known issue? Any ideas on what resource lots of zfs commands use > up to prevent fork() from working?
ZFS is known to use a lot of memory. I suspect this problem has diminished in recent Nevada builds. Can you try this on Nevada? David _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
