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authorBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2016-01-13 10:41:24 -0800
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2016-01-13 13:55:12 -0800
commit89666a8e1cfe8691a31fa8ca33c55362e959e2ed (patch)
tree9bad8e7c91d320e358cd958db7f797bd173d0a61 /man
parente6cfd633be909956c8a6998f478ceb32558c210c (diff)
Increase default user space stack size
Under RHEL6/CentOS6 the default stack size must be increased to 32K to prevent overflowing the stack when running ztest. This isn't an issue for other distributions due to either the version of pthreads or perhaps the compiler. Doubling the stack size resolves the issue safely for all distribution and leaves us some headroom. $ sudo -E ztest -V -T 300 -f /var/tmp/ 5 vdevs, 7 datasets, 23 threads, 300 seconds... loading space map for vdev 0 of 1, metaslab 0 of 30 ... ... loading space map for vdev 0 of 1, metaslab 14 of 30 ... child died with signal 11 Exited ztest with error 3 Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #4215
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-rw-r--r--man/man1/ztest.17
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/ztest.1 b/man/man1/ztest.1
index f798bcfcb..ebfacd46d 100644
--- a/man/man1/ztest.1
+++ b/man/man1/ztest.1
@@ -149,11 +149,10 @@ ztest -f / -V -T 120
.TP
.B "ZFS_STACK_SIZE=stacksize"
Limit the default stack size to \fBstacksize\fR bytes for the purpose of
-detecting and debugging kernel stack overflows. For x86_64 platforms this
-value should be set as follows to simulate these platforms: \fB8192\fR
-(Linux), \fB20480\fR (Illumos), \fB16384\fR (FreeBSD).
+detecting and debugging kernel stack overflows. This value defaults to
+\fB32K\fR which is double the default \fB16K\fR Linux kernel stack size.
-In practice you may need to set these value slightly higher because
+In practice, setting the stack size slightly higher is needed because
differences in stack usage between kernel and user space can lead to spurious
stack overflows (especially when debugging is enabled). The specified value
will be rounded up to a floor of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN which is the minimum stack