Hi, we've capped Arcsize via set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000 in /etc/system to 512 MB, since ARC still does not release memory when applications need it (this is another bug). But this hard limit is not obeyed, instead, when traversing all files in a large and deep directory, we see the values below (arc started with 300 MB). After a while, machine (Ultra 20 M2 with 6GB) swaps and then, hours later, freezes completely (even no reaction on quick push power button, no ping, no mouse, have to hard reset). Arc summary shows clearly that limits are not what they supposed to be. If this is working as intended, then the intention must be changed. As poorly as ARC is working now, it's absolutely necessary that a hard limit is indeed a hard limit for ARC. Please fix this. Is there anything I can do to really limit or switch off the ARC completely ? It's breaking our production work often since we've installed OSol (we came from SXDE 1.08 which worked better), we must find a way to stop this problem as fast as possible !
arcstat: Time read miss miss% dmis dm% pmis pm% mmis mm% arcsz c 13:22:16 95M 23M 24 10M 14 12M 64 22M 24 963M 536M 13:22:17 2K 256 10 79 6 177 15 222 9 965M 536M 13:22:18 2K 490 22 119 10 371 38 482 22 970M 536M 13:22:19 4K 214 4 150 6 64 3 140 3 971M 536M 13:22:20 2K 427 19 57 4 370 37 419 19 971M 536M 13:22:21 1K 208 19 103 17 105 21 202 19 971M 536M .... 13:23:16 1K 481 27 80 8 401 47 478 27 1G 536M 13:23:17 2K 255 11 125 10 130 13 218 10 1G 536M and counting... arc_summary: System Memory: Physical RAM: 6134 MB Free Memory : 1739 MB LotsFree: 95 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000 ARC Size: Current Size: 1357 MB (arcsize) Target Size (Adaptive): 512 MB (c) Min Size (Hard Limit): 191 MB (zfs_arc_min) Max Size (Hard Limit): 512 MB (zfs_arc_max) ARC Size Breakdown: Most Recently Used Cache Size: 93% 479 MB (p) Most Frequently Used Cache Size: 6% 32 MB (c-p) ARC Efficency: Cache Access Total: 97131108 Cache Hit Ratio: 75% 73244441 [Defined State for buffer] Cache Miss Ratio: 24% 23886667 [Undefined State for Buffer] REAL Hit Ratio: 67% 65874421 [MRU/MFU Hits Only] Data Demand Efficiency: 66% Data Prefetch Efficiency: 8% CACHE HITS BY CACHE LIST: Anon: --% Counter Rolled. Most Recently Used: 15% 11463028 (mru) [ Return Customer ] Most Frequently Used: 74% 54411393 (mfu) [ Frequent Customer ] Most Recently Used Ghost: 10% 7537123 (mru_ghost) [ Return Customer Evicted, Now Back ] Most Frequently Used Ghost: 19% 14619417 (mfu_ghost) [ Frequent Customer Evicted, Now Back ] CACHE HITS BY DATA TYPE: Demand Data: 3% 2716192 Prefetch Data: 0% 3506 Demand Metadata: 86% 63089419 Prefetch Metadata: 10% 7435324 CACHE MISSES BY DATA TYPE: Demand Data: 5% 1365132 Prefetch Data: 0% 36544 Demand Metadata: 40% 9664064 Prefetch Metadata: 53% 12820927 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss