Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 22, 2012, at 9:13 AM, James Carlson wrote: > Daniel Kjar wrote: >> I have this problem with any VM running on either Sol10 Nevada, >> Opensolaris, openindiana. I have the ARC restricted now but for some >> reason, and 'people at sun that know these things' have mentioned it >> before when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread James Carlson
Daniel Kjar wrote: > I have this problem with any VM running on either Sol10 Nevada, > Opensolaris, openindiana. I have the ARC restricted now but for some > reason, and 'people at sun that know these things' have mentioned it > before when sun still existed, when something needs a big devoted chu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, David Halko wrote: I don't really understand how applications can be starved by ZFS unless ZFS can not give back the buffers (lots of constant full-table scans?) Has Illumos developers really confirmed such a ZFS bug, where it is not returning memory to the OS? It does tak

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-22 18:24, Daniel Kjar wrote: I have this problem with any VM running on either Sol10 Nevada, Opensolaris, openindiana. I have the ARC restricted now but for some reason, and 'people at sun that know these things' have mentioned it before when sun still existed, when something needs a big

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread Daniel Kjar
I have this problem with any VM running on either Sol10 Nevada, Opensolaris, openindiana. I have the ARC restricted now but for some reason, and 'people at sun that know these things' have mentioned it before when sun still existed, when something needs a big devoted chunk of ram, zfs fails mi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-21 Thread David Halko
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Cedric Blancher < cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 01:22, Jason Matthews wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Cedric Blancher [mailto:cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com] > > > >> IMO you blame the wrong people. You can have the sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Brendan Gregg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Brendan Gregg [mailto:brendan.gr...@joyent.com] > > > > A full "echo ::kmastat | mdb -k" before reboot may show where the > > memory is or isn't. > > I am not a point where I would normally reboot it,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
DCE usage continued... I am guessing this is likely my problem... root@web006:~# netstat -nd |wc -l 704075 It is really twice as bad as that, as there are two proxy zones per physical server. I found this which outlines the fundamental problem. http://smartos.org/2012/02/28/using-flamegr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: Brendan Gregg [mailto:brendan.gr...@joyent.com] > A full "echo ::kmastat | mdb -k" before reboot may show where the > memory is or isn't. I am not a point where I would normally reboot it, but we are pretty well deep into memory utilization for the size of th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Brendan Gregg
(removing developer) On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Cedric Blancher < cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 00:52, Jason Matthews wrote: > > > > > > > > I should also mention that over all network performance degrades over > time > > and the only fix I have sound so far i