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Crossbow team, The following is of interest to the Crossbow project. Since a large chunk of these changes also exist in the Crossbow gate, the delivery of this wad will result in fewer lines of changes for Crossbow''s delivery. If someone on Crossbow could participate in this review, that would be a bonus (Eric Cheng made original changes in the Crossbow gate at some point last year).

Hi, I''m trying to use dtrace to signal threads in my app when certain events happen, and the raise() action seemed adequate -- looking at the kernel sources, it sends a signal to the currently executing thread, and a quick microbenchmark confirmed this. However, further testing showed that if lots of threads hit the event simultaneously, the signal only gets delivered once, and may also

ZFS works really stable on FreeBSD, but I''m biggest problem is how to control ZFS memory usage. I''ve no idea how to leash that beast. FreeBSD has a backpresure mechanism. I can register my function so it will be called when there are memory problems, which I do. I using it for ARC layer. Even with this in place under heavy load the kernel panics, because memory with KM_SLEEP