From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 25 06:36:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA23571 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 06:36:35 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23521 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 06:35:09 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA28236; Thu, 25 May 1995 21:27:18 +0800 Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 21:27:17 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: jbryant@endersbox.iadfw.net cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mb_map full In-Reply-To: <199505242152.QAA13381@server.iadfw.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 May 1995, Jim Bryant wrote: > > Our news server is a heavily used machine, is a pentium, has 128M RAM and > 128M swap space, and is usually up to 80% swapbound. Wow... that's a busy news machine... > Apparently, nothing is lost during the freeze-ups, and as a matter of > fact, everything just picks up right where it left off. I have ruled out > "swap_pager: out of space", as we only saw that again two days ago [time > for yet another memory upgrade]. Since you say "everything just picks up right where it left off" after an "mb_map full" message, I assume the machine hasn't lost the network? On the two occasions that it has happened on a machine here, I had to reboot to get network access back. No pings were going out, and it would not respond to incoming pings. All the netstat displays looked normal and it *should* have been able to communicate with the outside world, but it wasn't. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org