Heads-up: Possible regression between 10.0-RELEASE and 10.1-BETA1 with '/ on ZFS' setup

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 4 03:16:18 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:51:39AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > [...]
> >A possible solution to this is to set kern.kstack_pages=4 via loader(8),
> >however in my tests (solely in VirtualBox), this has been ineffective.
> >
> 
> This has been a known issue on i386 since the switch to Clang see UPDATING:
> 20121223:
>        After switching to Clang as the default compiler some users of ZFS
>        on i386 systems started to experience stack overflow kernel panics.
>        Please consider using 'options KSTACK_PAGES=4' in such configurations.
> 
> In my experience your millage may vary but essentially without 4 stack pages
> all bets are off in terms of stability.
> 

Did you read my email?

Glen

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