Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-08-06 Thread b. f.
Peter Holm wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:57:16PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: Got a panic: Not a vnode object quite fast: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt Ah, yes, this is an assertion that was

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-07-01 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 01.07.2011 um 07:01 schrieb Sean M. Collins: Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most of the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was printing swap zone exhausted The box

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-07-01 Thread Sean M. Collins
On 7/1/11 2:42 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: The box shouldn't wedge in this situation. If tmpfs can create a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not production ready. The full message was swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone - I guess that actual swap wasn't exhausted,

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-07-01 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 01.07.2011 at 11:33:42 -0400, Sean M. Collins wrote: On 7/1/11 2:42 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: The box shouldn't wedge in this situation. If tmpfs can create a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not production ready. The full message was swap zone exhausted,

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-30 Thread Sean M. Collins
Maybe i'm missing something but creating/removing large number of files in one directory on tmpfs was very slow for me. That was long ago and ZFS was in so i'll try to retest... I decided to torture test tmpfs with bonnie++ on one of my machines and the machine wedged. I can ping it but that's

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-30 Thread Sean M. Collins
Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most of the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was printing swap zone exhausted I'm an idiot. Can we replace the warning message with one

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
23.06.2011 19:31, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. Maybe i'm missing something but

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-28 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Hi KIB, Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have PRs covering those. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-27 Thread David O'Brien
Hi KIB, Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have PRs covering those. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with tmpfs. He would have more details. I somewhat remember some panic on

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-27 Thread Eir Nym
On 27 June 2011 17:42, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi KIB, Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have PRs covering those. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:57:16PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: Got a panic: Not a vnode object quite fast: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt Ah, yes, this is an assertion that was added in the r209702.

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something,

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch?

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:21:05PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:50:43PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:21:05PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: Got a panic: Not a vnode object quite fast: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt Ah, yes, this is an assertion that was added in the r209702. http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/tmpfs.7.patch pgpfCkfwvYyso.pgp

Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread David O'Brien
Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. Index: tmpfs_vfsops.c

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 23 11, Matthew Jacob wrote: I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Jacob wrote: I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, Sounds good to me. The tmpfs(5) man page should be patched also. -- Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 June 2011 17:31, David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. Index:

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Olivier Smedts
2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov melif...@ipfw.ru: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Jacob wrote: I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote:

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. There was some issues with sendfile(2) and mmap(2) causing kernel hangs in some cases. vim triggers such hangs for me. However, those problems were fixed and MFCed (afair). Can you sway when?

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. Index:

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered highly experimental

2011-06-23 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (23/06/2011 20:44), Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov melif...@ipfw.ru: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Jacob wrote: I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64