Lethal mix
Take one 8GB OpenSolaris system with a ZFS filesystem unconstrained by zfs_arc_max. Add in an OpenIndiana VirtualBox that I've given 3 of those 8GB so I can play with it. Leave the VM running for a week or so. Result: A system so thoroughly wedged that it won't even serve DNS, much less allow an ssh login. Wow.
I've been doing enough work with ZFS tuning these last several months that I realized immediately what had happened and just rolled my eyes at myself as I power cycled my house swerver. I've already changed the VM's memory allocation to 2GB and will at some point set zfs_arc_max to 4GB.
Then I get to take another look at persuading kremvax to upgrade to OI 151. The first attempt went kinda sideways. Thank ghu for ZFS snapshots.
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I've been doing enough work with ZFS tuning these last several months that I realized immediately what had happened and just rolled my eyes at myself as I power cycled my house swerver. I've already changed the VM's memory allocation to 2GB and will at some point set zfs_arc_max to 4GB.
Then I get to take another look at persuading kremvax to upgrade to OI 151. The first attempt went kinda sideways. Thank ghu for ZFS snapshots.
This was crossposted from Dreamwidth. Please feel free to comment here and/or there (the Dreamwidth entry has
comments).