[zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
The subject says it all, more or less: due to some problems with a pool (i.e. deferred deletes a month ago, possibly similar now), the "zpool import" hangs any zfs-related programs, including "zfs", "zpool", "bootadm", sometimes "df". After several hours of disk-thrashing all 8Gb of RAM in the sy

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-06-10 13:51, Jim Klimov пишет: and the system dies in swapping hell (scanrates for available pages were seen to go into millions, CPU context switches reach 200-300k/sec on a single dualcore P4) after eating the last stable-free 1-2Gb of RAM within a minute. After this the system responds to

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-06-10 18:00, Steve Gonczi пишет: Hi Jim, I wonder what OS version you are running? There was a problem similar to what you are describing in earlier versions in the 13x kernel series. Should not be present in the 14x kernels. It is OpenIndiana oi_148a, and unlike many other details - t

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-10 Thread Tim Cook
On Jun 10, 2011 11:52 AM, "Jim Klimov" wrote: > > 2011-06-10 18:00, Steve Gonczi пишет: >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> I wonder what OS version you are running? >> >> There was a problem similar to what you are describing in earlier versions >> in the 13x kernel series. >> >> Should not be present in the 14

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-14 Thread Frank Van Damme
2011/6/10 Tim Cook : > While your memory may be sufficient, that cpu is sorely lacking.  Is it even > 64bit?  There's a reason intel couldn't give those things away in the early > 2000s and amd was eating their lunch. A Pentium 4 is 32-bit. -- Frank Van Damme No part of this copyright message ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-14 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote: > 2011/6/10 Tim Cook : > > While your memory may be sufficient, that cpu is sorely lacking. Is it > even > > 64bit? There's a reason intel couldn't give those things away in the > early > > 2000s and amd was eating their lunch. > > A Pentiu

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-06-15 0:16, Frank Van Damme пишет: 2011/6/10 Tim Cook: While your memory may be sufficient, that cpu is sorely lacking. Is it even 64bit? There's a reason intel couldn't give those things away in the early 2000s and amd was eating their lunch. A Pentium 4 is 32-bit. Technically, this