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We got bitten by this back in the Solaris days in 2009, on a TV broadcasting production box with quite stringent uptime requirements: what happens is the defrag
by davidgerard 11y ago
We got bitten by this back in the Solaris days in 2009, on a TV broadcasting production box with quite stringent uptime requirements: what happens is the defragmenter gets itself tied in knots and starts thrashing, and the symptom is 50% system CPU with no apparent cause. Got a Sun kernel engineer on call and all. SPOILER: it did in fact require a reboot to unfuck the system. Then we kept the disk in question being wasted.
- ryao 11y agoA reboot implies a bug had to be fixed. That can be assumed to be fixed everywhere by now.
- davidgerard 11y ago... no, it doesn't imply anything of the sort. As far as I know, ZFS still has this issue - it can get itself tied in knots, and only a reboot will stop this from happening.