From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 15 09:44:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05669 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:44:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05661; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:44:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net) Received: by server.noc.demon.net; id RAA22870; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:44:34 GMT Received: from gti.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.101) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma022842; Mon, 15 Feb 99 17:44:28 GMT Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by gti.noc.demon.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29791; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:44:26 GMT Message-ID: <19990215174425.L27192@gti.noc.demon.net> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:44:25 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: tcobb@staff.circle.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panics & deciphering VMSTAT output Reply-To: Geoff Buckingham References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tcobb@staff.circle.net on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 09:37:01PM -0500 Organisation: Demon Internet Ltd Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Previously on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 09:37:01PM -0500, tcobb@staff.circle.net wrote: : 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 We have seen this too editing your disklabel to have only 2GB swap, without displacing the other partitions fixes this[1] : 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 We were also seeing this Matt (Frost) found an outstanding PR with a suggested fix that reordered some code, we haven't seen this crash since (5 days). (Vague I know maybe Matt will be along in a bit.) [1] Do not atempt ot do this unlest you are **VERY*** ***VERY*** sure you know what you are doing ***AND*** what will happen if you do it wrong. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message