From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 07:28:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DD316A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:28:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx4.datanet.hu (mx4.datanet.hu [194.149.13.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054B043D4C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:28:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: from momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (nilus-2628.adsl.datanet.hu [195.56.6.88]) by mx4.datanet.hu (DataNet) with ESMTP id B3A8026762C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:28:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (localhost.buza.adamsfamily.xx [127.0.0.1])i7O7TtWZ001133 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:29:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) Received: (from sziszi@localhost) by momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i7O7Ts9t001132 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:29:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sziszi@bsd.hu) X-Authentication-Warning: momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx: sziszi set sender to sziszi@bsd.hu using -f Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:29:52 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040824072951.GB976@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , current@freebsd.org References: <2D8BB15C7B5C214F81C32D3A83B32736E6BBB8@idbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> <16682.13031.43151.91070@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20040823185218.GA52250@82-168-140-74-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040823185218.GA52250@82-168-140-74-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: "witness exhausted" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:28:55 -0000 Hello Rene, Robert! On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:52:18PM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > I updated to > > > > FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Aug 20 15:02:58 EDT 2004 > > > > and noticed in the boot messages: > > > > witness_get: witness exhausted > > > > What's going on, and is this something I need to worry about? > > (System config file and dmesg output are appended.) > > > > > > Robert Huff > > "Me too". This is on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 #0: Sun Aug 22 09:50:24 CEST 2004 > It appears just after IPsec inited. > > The message comes from sys/kern/subr_witness.c (rev 1.178) Although I have not seen it lately, this message is an old acquintance: I remember it from the days before 5.0 was out. It means that the witness subsystem has reached its capacity and my experience at least at that time was that from this point on, witness checking was essentially disabled (you could literally feel this, because the interactive performance of the machine went right through the roof in a minute! :-) and stayed that way until the next reboot. Upon the introduction of the WITNESS_SKIPSPIN option I no longer encountered this message on my systems. So, nothing to worry about in my opinion... -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Budapest Hungary