> Interesting. My Ultra 20 with 2GB get stuck, scratching the disk and freezing > the overall system for more than 45 minutes before I shut it down (not very > gracefully). > > Is the behavior of 'zdb -S' expected to be long to run, and to load > significantly the system?
FYI, here are some information on memory consumption during 'zdb'. * At the very beginning of 'pfexec zdb -S rpool': $ echo ::memstat | /usr/bin/pfexec mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 132425 517 25% ZFS File Data 123680 483 24% Anon 87880 343 17% Exec and libs 3852 15 1% Page cache 15224 59 3% Free (cachelist) 17396 67 3% Free (freelist) 141389 552 27% Total 521846 2038 Physical 521845 2038 * After ~10 minutes and a more and more freezing system, I sent a Ctrl-C to 'zdb'. Here is the memory just before the the Ctrl-C : $ echo ::memstat | /usr/bin/pfexec mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 132327 516 25% ZFS File Data 40784 159 8% Anon 322631 1260 62% Exec and libs 2533 9 0% Page cache 11879 46 2% Free (cachelist) 5204 20 1% Free (freelist) 6488 25 1% Total 521846 2038 Physical 521845 2038 * And after the Ctrl-C: $ echo ::memstat | /usr/bin/pfexec mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 124306 485 24% ZFS File Data 15300 59 3% Anon 49092 191 9% Exec and libs 1284 5 0% Page cache 7374 28 1% Free (cachelist) 487 1 0% Free (freelist) 324003 1265 62% Total 521846 2038 Physical 521845 2038 -- julien. http://blog.thilelli.net/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org