From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 11:57:12 2002 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 040E237B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-47.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857E543EAA for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E1A66C61 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4697D12A8; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:56:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:56:29 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' Message-ID: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I tried to kldload acpi on a system that has been running for about 3 days, and the kldload process has been sitting there swapping for about an hour now. Breaking into DDB shows that acpi_alloc_wakeup_handler() is trying to contigmalloc(), and this is swapping around presumably trying to find enough space. The kldload process is unkillable from userland because it's working in the kernel. Can something be done to guard against this? Kris --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93ovsWry0BWjoQKURAk2YAKDtQd2xiaJTXTW2+yTf5FU/0GqhvwCfZhTy fxtWVOycSVMD9GRjAwbRhYA= =cUKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message