ZFS & Bittorent -> Hang?

[Claus Guttesen]

>  > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems
>  >
>  > This looks like #1.
>  >
>
>  Hmm.. I don't think there's a large amount of transfer between UFS & ZFS,
>  unless the client is using /tmp a lot, it should all be on ZFS.
>
>  I noted #4 as well, and therefore tried disabling prefetch.  I can't seem to
>  get it to hang now.  I queued up a bunch of different torrents (full freebsd
>  7 amd64 & i386, some other random things), and they all completed without
>  leading to me being locked out or any processes waiting on zfs.
>
>  I'll try some testing this weekend to see if I can reproduce the lock-up
>  again by re-enabling prefetch.  Perhaps we can confirm that issue?  Should I
>  bother with trying to run CURRENT or should any testing I do be done with
>  STABLE.  I don't see any indication that there might be experimental patches
>  for dealing with this or related issues.

Were you able to reproduce the lock-up by re-enabling prefetch?

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Claus

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