On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Jack Kielsmeier <jac...@netins.net> wrote:

> It's been about 45 minutes now since I started trying to import the pool.
>
> I see disk activity (see below)
>
> What concerns me is my free memory keeps shrinking as time goes on. Now
> have 185MB free out of 4 gigs (and 2 gigs of swap free).
>
> Hope this doesn't exhaust all my memory and freeze my box.
>
> I'll post updated information later.
>
> iostat output (taken every 5 seconds):
>
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t1d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c6d0
>   29.8    0.0 1894.7    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.2   0  60 c3d0
>   28.8    0.0 1843.3    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   12.6   0  36 c3d1
>   31.2    0.0 1984.3    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0   21.0   0  65 c4d0
>   29.0    0.0 1830.9    0.0  0.0  0.3    0.0   11.5   0  33 c4d1
> Tue Dec  8 17:34:15 CST 2009
>     cpu
>  us sy wt id
>  1  1  0 97
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t1d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c6d0
>   29.8    0.0 1881.9    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.6   0  61 c3d0
>   32.6    0.0 2086.3    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   11.7   0  38 c3d1
>   30.2    0.0 1932.7    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.2   0  61 c4d0
>   30.2    0.0 1932.7    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   12.4   0  37 c4d1
> Tue Dec  8 17:34:20 CST 2009
>     cpu
>  us sy wt id
>  1  1  0 98
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t1d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c6d0
>   27.2    0.0 1728.2    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.3   0  55 c3d0
>   30.2    0.0 1932.8    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   13.0   0  39 c3d1
>   30.8    0.0 1958.6    0.0  0.0  0.7    0.0   21.5   0  66 c4d0
>   31.6    0.0 2009.8    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   11.3   0  36 c4d1
> Tue Dec  8 17:34:25 CST 2009
>     cpu
>  us sy wt id
>  1  1  0 98
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5t1d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c5d0
>    0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.0   0   0 c6d0
>   30.8    0.0 1971.2    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.4   0  63 c3d0
>   29.2    0.0 1868.8    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   13.0   0  38 c3d1
>   30.2    0.0 1932.8    0.0  0.0  0.6    0.0   20.3   0  61 c4d0
>   30.2    0.0 1920.2    0.0  0.0  0.4    0.0   12.1   0  37 c4d1
>
>

That's expected, ZFS will use all the memory it can unless you tell it not
to.  It shouldn't freeze the box.

-- 
--Tim
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