From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 02:02:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F8616A422 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:02:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF42043D70 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 14606 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2006 12:02:46 +1000 Received: from 210-84-32-140.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.32.140) by creativesilk.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 12:02:45 +1000 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:02:42 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Don O'Neil" Message-ID: <20060401120242.61b75a8a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <00e901c65526$f8b33490$0300020a@mickey> References: <00e901c65526$f8b33490$0300020a@mickey> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 APCI Config & PMAP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:02:55 -0000 On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:55:29 -0800 "Don O'Neil" wrote: > I am 'burning in' some hardware and drives before putting them into > production using various tools (raidtest, etc...) and have a couple of > questions.. > > Occasionally under high load when doing the raid test, I see: > > collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC > > What does this mean, and what should I change it to to correct the > problem? I also get the occasional error that it couldn't write to > the device (twed) ... Everything seems to work ok though. google? :) anyway: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf $ less NOTES [....] # # Set the number of PV entries per process. Increasing this can # stop panics related to heavy use of shared memory. However, that can # (combined with large amounts of physical memory) cause panics at # boot time due the kernel running out of VM space. # # If you're tweaking this, you might also want to increase the sysctls # "vm.v_free_min", "vm.v_free_reserved", and "vm.v_free_target". # # The value below is the one more than the default. # options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=201 [...] > > Also, my motherboards APCI is horribly broken, I can boot ok without > APCI if I select option 2 from the boot menu (it's a 'stock' 6.0 > install). How do I configure the system to boot without APCI > automatically? (FAQ) /boot/device.hints, change the following lines to ### APM vs ACPI hint.apm.0.disabled="0" hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" /boot/loader.conf.local: apm_load="YES" (that's to enable APM instead of ACPI - if not a laptop, u can have both off). ACPI shouldn't be compiled into the kernel, of coure. good luck, Beto