From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 14 18:37:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16914 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freya.circle.net (freya.circle.net [209.95.95.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16893; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) From: tcobb@staff.circle.net Received: by freya.circle.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <1PTHLCN0>; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:37:07 -0500 Message-ID: To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: panics & deciphering VMSTAT output Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:37:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to track down a regular, but not manually reproducible crash in 3.0-BETA (19990205). I can't get a crashdump due to a DSCHECK negative number bug. I think my swap space of 3+GB is too large for it. So, I've been having it send me the output of vmstat -m every 15 minutes to try to track it down. The couple of times I've seen the panic message on the console, it was typically, but not always: pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe - out of kvm It has been happening approximately every 6 hours on a heavily loaded server with 100+ chrooted daemons and NFS. So, in short, so that I can compare my vmstat outputs to the one I captured 3 minutes before the last crash, can anyone tell me what the vmstat entries mean? :) A quick legend or tutorial would be helpful, and I'll turn it into a FAQ for the documentation project, too. -Troy Cobb Circle Net, Inc. http://www.circle.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message