Sounds like you've got IO issues not memory issues.

-J

On Jan 18, 2008 10:44 AM, Jochem Ippers <jochem_ippers at web.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> We're running Solaris10u4 here on a Sun Fire 2200 (x86/Opteron) with 8 GB 
> RAM, and after a long time of problems I'm about to give up our zfs 
> installation (on a simple scsi hardware raid) because of massive problems 
> with (low memory?) deadlocks - even a simple 'zfs list' sometimes locks the 
> zfs-system for minutes, especially when there's some traffic (it's a 
> samba-box).
>
> I'm sorry for not giving a more detailed description but I guess some people 
> know this problem - I just couldn't find any solution or workaround anywhere.
> Could be (i.e.) the same as:
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6628833
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6457639
>
> So, is there any workaround for this (changing the arc cache setting in 
> /etc/system is at least useless here, adding 4 GB RAM didn't help either) or 
> will there be a solution/patch for it in the (near) future?
>
> Greetings from Aachen, germany
> Jochem Ippers
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