Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Hernan, Friday, May 23, 2008, 6:08:34 PM, you wrote: HF> The question is still, why does it hang the machine? Why can't I HF> access the filesystems? Isn't it supposed to import the zpool, HF> mount the ZFSs and then do the destroy, in background? HF> Try to limit ARC size to 1/4 of yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Mattias Pantzare
2008/5/24 Hernan Freschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I let it run while watching TOP, and this is what I got just before it hung. > Look at free mem. Is this memory allocated to the kernel? can I allow the > kernel to swap? No, the kernel will not use swap for this. But most of the memory used by th

Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Rob
> Memory: 3072M phys mem, 31M free mem, 2055M swap, 1993M free swap perhaps this might help.. mkfile -n 4g /usr/swap swap -a/usr/swap http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/zfs_arc_statistics Rob ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Hernan Freschi
I let it run while watching TOP, and this is what I got just before it hung. Look at free mem. Is this memory allocated to the kernel? can I allow the kernel to swap? last pid: 7126; load avg: 3.36, 1.78, 1.11; up 0+01:01:11 21:16:49 88 pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Hernan Freschi
I let it run for about 4 hours. when I returned, still the same: I can ping the machine but I can't SSH to it, or use the console. Please, I need urgent help with this issue! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Hernan Freschi
I got more info. I can run zpool history and this is what I get: 2008-05-23.00:29:40 zfs destroy tera/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-05-23.00:29:47 [internal destroy_begin_sync txg:3890809] dataset = 152 2008-05-23.01:28:38 [internal destroy_begin_sync txg:3891101] dataset = 152 2008-05-23.07:01:36 zpool

[zfs-discuss] help with a BIG problem, can't import my zpool anymore

2008-05-23 Thread Hernan Freschi
Hello, I'm having a big problem here, disastrous maybe. I have a zpool consisting of 4x500GB SATA drives, this pool was born on S10U4 and was recently upgraded to snv85 because of iSCSI issues with some initiator. Last night I was doing housekeeping, deleting old snapshots. One snapshot failed