Re: port-evbarm/56944: ZFS heavy usage on NetBSD running in Mac M1 VM results in kernel thread running away and filesystem hang

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-evbarm/56944; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-evbarm-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: port-evbarm/56944: ZFS heavy usage on NetBSD running in Mac M1 VM
 results in kernel thread running away and filesystem hang
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 10:00:08 -0700

 > On Jul 30, 2022, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost> wrote:
 > 
 > oh, you've got a zvol as swap space.  that has never worked on netbsd
 > and it's not going to work for the foreseeable future.  using a zfs file
 > as a swap file will also hang eventually.  you'll need to change your setup
 > to have the swap space be something that doesn't involve zfs.
 
 Seems like we should actively block trying to set that configuration up.
 
 -- thorpej