[geeks] One, two, three, panic!

[Michael-John Turner]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:51:48AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Did you tune your kernel prior to setting up the zpool?  ZFS on
> FreeBSD/i386 is extremely panic-prone if you don't tune first because of
> the massive amount of kernel memory it can ask for on short notice.
> FreeBSD/i386 tends to keep the kernel footprint slim because of the
> architectural limits of the i386 memory map.

Just to expand on what you're saying, the ZFS tuning and known problems
guides[1] cover the settings fairly well. Phil, have you looked at those?

[1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
    http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems

-mj
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