Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@zepa.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/11266: Page fault, fatal trap in kernel Message-ID: <199904222100.OAA02101@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/11266; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@zepa.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/11266: Page fault, fatal trap in kernel Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:56:01 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Maxusers 96 ought to be safe, but your problems looks like the > mem/max problem, only at a very slow rate. The problem derives from > the kernel taking up more memory than it has space to map. Since > this is gradually used, it takes a while for the problem to show up. > One week is a long while, so you might be a borderline case, because > of your other options. I suggest lowering maxusers to 90, and see if > that eliminates the problem, or make your machine survive a while > longer. Well, at least I'm not the only one having the problem. I recompiled my kernel without the MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ settings, lowering NMBCLUSTERS to 2048 and setting maxusers to 90. The machine promptly crashed again, only an hour after being rebooted with a new kernel. -- [ Nickolai Zeldovich // nickolai@zepa.net ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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