J?rgen Keil wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: > >> J?rgen Keil wrote: >> >>>> Is there some way to get more insight into what is going on here? >>>> >>> You can try to boot the installer under kmdb control >>> >> I suspect this is something ZFS specific, since it doesn't hang when I >> choose UFS root. >> So if there are more ZFS specifc kmdb commands you'd like run, please let me >> know. >> > > In the ::arc output we see that zfs did already shrink the cache > to it's minimum size of 64MB; it's in "arc_no_grow" mode; > and "memory_throttle_count" is also non zero. > > So it seems something is using lots of kernel heap memory, and > zfs's arc cache tried to adapt to this situation. > > The ::kmastat output shows no failed memory allocations yet. > But some of the kmem caches use *lots* of memory: > > [4]> ::kmastat > cache buf buf buf memory alloc alloc > name size in use total in use succeed fail > ------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- --------- ----- > ... > kmem_va_4096 4096 54812 54848 224657408B 66351 0 > ... > kmem_io_64G_4096 4096 67584 67586 276832256B 337888 0 > ... > rootnex_dmahdl 1272 86771 86862 118595584B 400380 0 > ... > > > These three consume 214MB / 264MB and 113MB. > I'm not sure if that is ok, of if there is some kind of leak > here. 86000 handles for dma transfer appears to be excessive... > > Note that the installer is running the 32-bit Solaris kernel, and > this has a kernel heap limit of something like 500 - 600MB (IIRC). > > What kind of disk controllers are you using? > It's an IBM X-Series 346 Server, It's some form of Adaptec U320 SCSI Controller, but I don't know the exact model. There are also 1 or 2 (depending on the host) 2 port 2GB Q-Logic FC HBA's installed, but I'm not using them (no cables plugged in.) > What kind of network interfaces? > I'm only using the motherboard the motherboard bge0 and bge1 at this point, but there are 2 4-port Intel e1000g (e1000g0-7) cards installed in the machines also.
-Kyle > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
