Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM, George Kontostanos wrote: > > > > I can confirm that this is still a problem on 8.2 and 9.0. > > > > > You can not compare 8.2 with 9.0 per ZFS. What problems are you facing > with your swap in 9.0 ? > I suppose you are having problems similar to the following: h

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-13 Thread George Kontostanos
> > I can confirm that this is still a problem on 8.2 and 9.0. > > -- > CTO, Hybrid Logic > +447791750420  |  +1-415-449-1165  | www.hybrid-cluster.com > > > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-12 Thread Luke Marsden
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? > > > > I found some older discussions about a resource starvation > > scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system > > running out of memory,

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-07 Thread Peter Ankerstål
I can just tell you I had this problem still in 8.1 and it was a HUGE problem. System stalled every two weeks or so. Now when the swap is moved away from zfs it works fine. On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi, all, > > is it possible to make a definite statement about sw

Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-06 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all, is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? I found some older discussions about a resource starvation scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system running out of memory, trying to swap, yet the ZFS would not be accessible until some memory was freed - lead