From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 4 10:12:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7612D37B401; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A6E43E88; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:12:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0178.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.178] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Je0V-0001HE-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:12:23 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEE4539.238D0F6B@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:11:05 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Varshavchick Alexander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers and random system freezes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Can it be so that kernel maxusers=768 value being more than 512 leads to > spontaneous system freezes which can take up to several hours when the > system is just sleeping (only replying to ping) and doing nothing else, > not allowing to telnet or anything. The system is 4.5-STABLE with much RAM > (4 Gb) and the box has a heavy enough traffic so a bunch of other kernel > options have been increased: [ ... settings ... ] With these settings, and that much physical RAM, you should set your KVA space to 3G (the default is 2G); have you? Most likely, you are running out of KVA space for mappings. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message