From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 11:59:10 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 0C3DD37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:59:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E59B43E4A for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CA3C110DE14; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:59:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:59:11 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' Message-ID: <20021122195911.GB40847@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.org References: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:56:29AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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? From what I was told you can't kldload acpi after boot or that you shouldn't. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message