[OmniOS-discuss] heavy NFS load causing server to become unavailable from memory starvation.

[Doug Hughes]

Been seeing this a bit lately on a server with 96GB ram where the zil is 
limited to 48GB. Under heavy NFS load (caused by user running parallel 
find/xargs/rm clean job), it sends the machine into desparation memory 
and causes it to be unreachable for a while. (the server is 24 x SSD, 
and I/O load is ok)

I have some mdb/kmastat/kmausers/memstat output.

here's the kmastat break down.

Total [hat_memload] 15.8M    5155240     0
Total [kmem_msb] 22.0G  987112603     0
Total [kmem_firewall] 271M  411704261   895
Total [kmem_va] 40.8G   22314937     0
Total [kmem_default] 31.8G 4275706645   619
Total [kmem_io_4P] 44.7M   26714639     0
Total [kmem_io_4G] 108K        908     0
Total [kmem_io_2G] 100K         68     0
Total [bp_map]                                                0 7251     0
Total [umem_np]                                               0 728     0
Total [zfs_file_data] 118M      93380     0
Total [zfs_file_data_buf] 19.4G   22030035     0
Total [segkp] 256K       6787     0
Total [ip_minor_arena_sa] 512      72304     0
Total [ip_minor_arena_la]                                    64 29350     0
Total [spdsock]                                               0 1     0
Total [namefs_inodes]                                        64 27     0
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the kmausers is almost 1MB.