You are you running the release from February of this year, given that SmartOS is so simple to upgrade have you considered it?
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Matthias Götzke <[email protected]> wrote: > This behavior is on 20150219T102159Z with 64GB RAM > > SuperMicro > > > > "Product": "X9DRD-7LN4F(-JBOD)/X9DRD-EF", > > "CPU Type": "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz", > > "CPU Physical Cores": 1, > > "CPU Total Cores": 16 > > > > We upgraded the RAM to 128GB now but this problem will obviously happen > again when we cannot limit the ARC. I am considering starting a few dummy > kvm’s with reserved RAM as buffers. > > > > NOTE: This is a dual CPU Board, with only 1 Socket used and only the RAM > from that one socket filled. As demand increases we will likely add more > RAM and another CPU. > > > > PS: I did hear that zfs_arc_max can be configured during boot using > /etc/system but the process to actually change that at boot is not > documented in a SOP kind of way, so I will have to experiment a bit to get > this reliably working on a test machine first. > > > > > > > *From: *Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, December 29, 2015 23:39 > *To: *Matthias Götzke <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [smartos-discuss] ZFS ARC MAX ? > > > > On 29 December 2015 at 13:42, Matthias Götzke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is readjusting, just halting the entire server , making it unreachable > > > while it’s doing so. And taking considerably longer doing so than just > > > rebooting. That means to me that it’s not just releasing ram pages > marked as > > > non dirty (that should be faster). > > > > I believe we have seen a number of similar problems, where the process > > of ARC eviction was hurting system responsiveness. For example, > > OS-4949: > > > > https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-4949 > > > > What platform version are you running on the systems that become > unresponsive? > > > > > > Cheers. > > > > -- > > Joshua M. Clulow > > UNIX Admin/Developer > > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27825507-82e246d1> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
