more zfs/nfs panics

2008-12-16 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, I'm trying to tar a rather big directory via nfs (some 800gb), it has many subdirectories, some of them with many files (close to 10^6 :-) just before the server panics, the tar (on the client) starts complaining about lost files, or permition denied, but not in the pathological directories.

Re: more zfs/nfs panics

2008-12-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, I'm trying to tar a rather big directory via nfs (some 800gb), it has many subdirectories, some of them with many files (close to 10^6 :-) just before the server panics, the tar (on the client) starts complaining about lost files, or permition denied, but not in

Re: more zfs/nfs panics

2008-12-16 Thread Rudy
it just seems to delay the panic though, it smells like some memory leak ... Well, the canonical fix seems be to DECREASE vfs.zfs.arc_max to something like 100M and keep decreasing until it works. More info here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide Once you tune, your