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From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net>
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On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:32 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:28 +0300, Iasen Kostov wrote:
> > 	Hello
> > I (probably) have some problem with a hosting server machine halting
> > about once a 30 to minute (probably when the free memory falls under
> > some threshold). At that moment the machine totally halts for about 5 sec
> > then resumes normal work with load average around 9-15 (depends on
> > system load) from about 2-3. The system is:
> > (nice try :()
>  FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #7: Wed Mar 15 17:35:21 EET 2006
> 
>  ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
>  Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>  CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU)
>    Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f12  Stepping = 2
> 
> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>    Features2=0x1<SSE3>
>    AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
>  real memory  = 8724152320 (8320 MB)
>  avail memory = 8315379712 (7930 MB)
>  FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
> 
	Hum, I was probably wrong about the free memory threshold - it
currently has ~1600MB of free and it is doing it again. When the free
memory falls under ~30MB it is just doing it more frequently.