Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:20:45 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repeatable crash on RELENG7 Message-ID: <20081202142045.GA3045@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <200812021412.mB2ECsEp004018@lava.sentex.ca> References: <200812021319.mB2DJGJx003807@lava.sentex.ca> <20081202133812.GY3045@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <200812021412.mB2ECsEp004018@lava.sentex.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 08:38 AM 12/2/2008, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >> > >> mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 1800M > >You cannot have ~ 2Gb of kernel memory allocated for md, at least not on > >i386. > > Thanks, how do I find out what the limit is on a machine ? Is it > vm.kvm_size ? It is much less, and highly depends on your load, since KVA is used for all kind of allocations made by kernel. I think either md(4) or mdconfig(8) have a warning about malloc backing for md. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk1RDwACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4i5RwCgl3eE3pgWKUJTlTKhnXoP9Pvg ZgwAn2M+2Uv2U2Ct0v7ZLUlidO9McK0E =AQAj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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