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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:38:53 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: STABLE kernel panicking all too often ...
Message-ID:  <20020416203853.A61136@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020416234008.D99298-100000@mail1.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:47:24PM -0300
References:  <20020416234008.D99298-100000@mail1.hub.org>

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:47:24PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> panic: vm_map_entry_create: kernel resources exhausted
> mp_lock = 01000001; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 01000000
> boot() called on cpu#1
> 
> 	top on the server right now is showing:
> 
> last pid: 65925;  load averages: 66.56, 48.32, 45.90    up 0+18:51:34  21:45:18
> 2824 processes:2 running, 2822 sleeping
> CPU states: 18.0% user,  0.2% nice, 11.5% system,  0.8% interrupt, 69.5% idle
> Mem: 2346M Active, 209M Inact, 315M Wired, 116M Cache, 199M Buf, 30M Free
> Swap: 3072M Total, 851M Used, 2221M Free, 27% Inuse
> 
> 	I would hope that 'running out of resources' would be handled a
> bit better then a crash ... :(

What would you prefer, a deadlock? :-)

There's presumably some transient load on that machine which is
causing the panics.  The VM gurus will probably also want your kernel
configuration settings in case you have a tunable parameter set
inappropriately.

Kris

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