From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 05:40:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15802 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15794 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net) Received: by server.noc.demon.net; id NAA11652; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:14 GMT Received: from gti.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.101) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma011638; Mon, 25 Jan 99 13:40:04 GMT Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by gti.noc.demon.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24077 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:01 GMT Message-ID: <19990125134001.E20146@gti.noc.demon.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:01 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVA/KVM shortages Reply-To: Geoff Buckingham References: <19990121180941.G19395@gti.noc.demon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990121180941.G19395@gti.noc.demon.net>; from Geoff Buckingham on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:09:41PM +0000 Organisation: Demon Internet Ltd Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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