[OmniOS-discuss] r151014 users - beware of illumos 6214 and L2ARC

[Dan McDonald]

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this limited to r151014 and bloody?   
> 
> I was under the impression this bug went back to the introduction of L2ARC compression.

Did you read the analysis of 6214?  It calls out this commit as the cause:

Author: Chris Williamson <Chris.Williamson at delphix.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 29 19:12:23 2014 -0800

    5408 managing ZFS cache devices requires lots of RAM
    Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden at delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson at delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens at delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: Don Brady <dev.fs.zfs at gmail.com>
    Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek at nexenta.com>
    Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org>

That wasn't in '012, just '014 and later.

Dan