Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:01 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@demon.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVA/KVM shortages Message-ID: <19990125134001.E20146@gti.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <19990121180941.G19395@gti.noc.demon.net>; from Geoff Buckingham on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:09:41PM %2B0000 References: <19990121180941.G19395@gti.noc.demon.net>
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Previously on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:09:41PM +0000, Geoff Buckingham wrote: : On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with : 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: : : options "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024)" : options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(128*1024*1024)" : : seems like a good way foward. Is it? : As no one seemed to comment directly on this I thouht I would relay our experiances: panic: pmap_new_proc: u_map allocation failed Imediatly after the login promt appeared on the console:-( This was running UNI-proccessor with softupdates and ccd the application is disk and network heavy, circa 300 processes, however most memory is used as cache. This is 3.0-RELEASE with security fixes. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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