On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:39:36AM +0200, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > On 13 mei 2008, at 21:53, Xin LI wrote: > > >| While doing an rsync from a zfs filesystem to an external usb hd > >(also > >| zfs), the rsync processes hung in zfs state. I could not kill these > >| processes, although the rest of the server seemingly continued to > >run > >| fine. The reboot command did not work. Next I tried a shutdown now > >| command. This caused a panic: > > > >Sound like you somehow run out of memory, there is an known issue with > >ZFS which causes livelock when there is memory pressure. Which rsync > >version are you using? With rsync 3.x the memory usage would drop > >drastically which would help to prevent this from happening. > > I'm running rsync 3.0.0. Two weeks ago I already increased the memory > in this machine from 4 to 8 GB, but I did not change any loader.conf > variables. > > BTW, The wired memory goes all over the place in this machine: even > when it's mostly idle it varies between 300 MB and 3.5 GB. That's why > I added 4 more GB. 3.5Gb wired ? Do you run amd64 ?
Does wired memory drops lower after you change the load ?
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