Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:54:57 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-stable unstable with HighPoint HPT372N UDMA133 controller Message-ID: <A52B26A3-AE26-4D59-B160-43D7ED0C35C7@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <436F8A6D.5080208@protected-networks.net> References: <436E7B02.9020207@protected-networks.net> <436E8290.3050604@protected-networks.net> <436F8A6D.5080208@protected-networks.net>
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On 07/11/2005, at 18:10, Michael Butler wrote: > > | I wrote: > | | cvsup'd and built: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Fri Nov 4 18:07:30 =20 > EST 2005 > | > | ~ [ .. ] > | > | | Nov 6 16:43:27 mail kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed! > | | Nov 6 16:43:27 mail kernel: FAILURE - out of memory in > | ata_raid_init_request > | | Nov 6 16:43:27 mail last message repeated 7 times > | | Nov 6 16:43:27 mail kernel: > > Looking at the output of "sysctl -a" on a now almost idle machine I =20= > see: > > ITEM SIZE LIMIT USED FREE REQUESTS > > ~ [ .. ] > > ata_composit: 192, 0, 12296, 124, 62341 > ata_request: 200, 0, 24592, 108, 920945 > > ~ .. shouldn't these be freed at some point if there's minimal disk > activity (and few dirty buffers, "systat -vm" says there are 7)? Or =20= > am I > misreading this? That does indeed look wrong. However I cant reproduce the problem =20 here on any of the machines I have 6.0 on, and I dont think a memory =20 leeak that severe would have survived this far, but I've been wrong =20 many times before... I'll look into it as soon as I have a little more time than today.. - S=F8ren
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