Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:02:05 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' Message-ID: <20021122120205.A38536@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021122195911.GB40847@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:59:11PM -0600 References: <20021122195629.GA26958@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021122195911.GB40847@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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* De: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> [ Data: 2002-11-22 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' ] > 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. It might make sense to (once we go to user-space) prevent kldloading anything that calls contigmalloc(). -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer. ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict. FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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