From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 2 00:12:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA18444 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 00:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA18409 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 00:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 840 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jul 1997 07:06:46 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: vm_page_alloc error Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In stress-testing a new P6-200 system (128MB RAM), we are getting: vm_page_alloc(ZERO): missing pages on cache queue: 1 Sometimes it will say (NORMAL) instead of (ZERO). Sometimes it will say queue: 2 instead of queue: 1 Stress testing means running 50-500 copies of dd, all reading the same raw disk. Top says: last pid: 286; load averages: 1.49, 1.31, 0.64 23:45:21 51 processes: 1 running, 50 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 1.6% system, 0.8% interrupt, 97.3% idle Mem: 26M Active, 4044K Inact, 7056K Wired, 32K Cache, 1958K Buf, 26M Free Swap: 256M Total, 37M Used, 219M Free, 14% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 282 root 28 0 648K 532K RUN 0:00 0.38% 0.38% top 266 root -6 0 2272K 1064K physst 0:00 0.04% 0.04% dd 255 root -6 0 2272K 1064K physst 0:00 0.04% 0.04% dd 133 root 18 0 332K 160K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron ... Thanx, Simon