Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Debugging a Linux kernel deadlock when doing swap on ZFS
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:50:14
Message-Id: 4F8A9974.7030801@cs.stonybrook.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Debugging a Linux kernel deadlock when doing swap on ZFS by Richard Yao
1 Thanks everyone for your extremely useful tips. I seem to have it
2 working now. The problem is that ZFS does memory allocations when asked
3 to write things.
4
5 A makeshift solution is to do `echo 524288 >
6 /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes`. A more permanent fix will take more time
7 to produce, but at least I have a handle on the situation now.

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