Prakash Surya wrote:
> I'm curious, the allocation functions can return NULL on the OSX port?
> 
> That just seems like a recipe for disaster, if so. The code is written
> with the assumption that allocations will never return NULL (IIRC, the
> illumos allocation semantics guarantee success or hang).
> 

I have made patches to SPL to panic if kmem_alloc, or mutex_init, returns
NULL, but that appears to not be the case.

So many panics at end of ZIO would suggest an issue with ZIO, but they
appear to be normal kmem_cache_allocs.

We'll keep digging.

Lund

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