[OmniOS-discuss] [developer] Re: The ixgbe driver, Lindsay Lohan, and the Greek economy

[Dan McDonald]

> On Mar 2, 2015, at 2:07 PM, W Verb via illumos-developer <developer at lists.illumos.org> wrote:
> 
> Count indv cuml rcnt     nsec Hottest Lock           Caller
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  9306  44%  44% 0.00     1557 htable_mutex+0x370     htable_release
>  6307  23%  68% 0.00     1207 htable_mutex+0x108     htable_lookup
>   596   7%  75% 0.00     4100 0xffffff0931705188     cv_wait
>   349   5%  80% 0.00     4437 0xffffff0931705188     taskq_thread
>   704   2%  82% 0.00      995 0xffffff0935de3c50     dbuf_create

That has NOTHING to do with TCP.

 It has everything to do with the Virtual Memory subsystem.  Here, see all the callers to htable_release():

	http://src.illumos.org/source/search?q=&defs=&refs=htable_release&path=&hist=&project=illumos-gate

I think "VM thrashing" when I see that.

Dan