From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 21 9: 9:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538E837B407 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@nomad.tor.lets.net) Received: from nomad.tor.lets.net (H74.C220.tor.velocet.net [216.138.220.74]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E82A044A9B6 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:08:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 2568 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Aug 2001 15:57:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:57:24 -0400 From: Steve Shorter To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: VM exhaustion and kernel hangs Message-ID: <20010821115724.A2562@nomad.lets.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy! I have diskless frontends and would rather kill processes than swap over NFS. I am running 4.3-SECURITY, and about every 2-3 days the machine hangs, vmstat shows page scans (sr) going through the roof secounds before it becomes unusable. I understand from reading the freebsd-stable archive (circa May 2001) that there is a bug in the vm around killproc, which causes kernel lockups before processes are killed. Has this been fixed yet in stable, or is there a patch/fix or other work around other than adding more RAM? For you additional info I have 256M RAM and NO_SWAPPING defined in the kernel. Your shared experience/knowledge is much appreciated. Please Cc me personally with any responses. thanx - steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message