From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 14 14:53:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09481 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA09388 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:53:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 755 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jan 1998 20:27:34 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-010198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801130328.TAA18904@implode.root.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:27:34 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: David Greenman Subject: Re: Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 13-Jan-98 David Greenman wrote: >> vnodes145070 24237K 24237K 39322K 246196 0 0 16,32,256 > > Huh - 145070 vnodes? How much physical memory is in this machine? I > have > a gigabyte of RAM in wcarchive and it peaks at about 87,000. This looks > like > a vnode leak to me. Which version of FreeBSD is this? 384MB or RAM. 3.0-current as of 12-Jan. What do I do about the vnode leak? The way to trigger it is to cd into one LARGE directory and do ``find . | cpio -dmpv /Destination'' >>Memory Totals: In Use Free Requests >> 57971K 554K 4718664 I have seen the FREE go down to 38K or so. > ...no surprise that the machine is panicing. Dumb Question: Which is the alert and why? ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313