Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:59:11 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' Message-ID: <20021122195911.GB40847@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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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. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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