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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2008 23:39:10 +0300
From:      Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.
Message-ID:  <482B4DEE.3050705@ispro.net>

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Hello,

I have a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64 box which gives this message with apache 2.2 
very often. Previously the contents of the box was on 6.3-STABLE x86 and I had 
no such problems. This started right away when we moved to 7, 64bit.

FreeBSD web.XXXXX.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Apr 22 02:13:30 UTC 
2008     yurtesen@web.XXXXX.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEB  amd64

Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the 
vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.
Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the 
vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

I have increased vm.pmap.shpgperproc to 2000 and this seemed to stop complaints 
for a little while but they occur again...

ipcs -a return nothing

web:/root#ipcs -a
Message Queues:
T           ID          KEY MODE        OWNER    GROUP    CREATOR  CGROUP 
           CBYTES                 QNUM               QBYTES        LSPID 
LRPID STIME    RTIME    CTIME

Shared Memory:
T           ID          KEY MODE        OWNER    GROUP    CREATOR  CGROUP 
   NATTCH        SEGSZ         CPID         LPID ATIME    DTIME    CTIME

Semaphores:
T           ID          KEY MODE        OWNER    GROUP    CREATOR  CGROUP 
    NSEMS OTIME    CTIME

web:/root#

Here are the active sysctl values:

vm.pmap.pmap_collect_active: 0
vm.pmap.pmap_collect_inactive: 0
vm.pmap.pv_entry_spare: 7366
vm.pmap.pv_entry_allocs: 93953399357
vm.pmap.pv_entry_frees: 93953160939
vm.pmap.pc_chunk_tryfail: 0
vm.pmap.pc_chunk_frees: 559631374
vm.pmap.pc_chunk_allocs: 559632837
vm.pmap.pc_chunk_count: 1463
vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 238418
vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 2000
vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 13338058

The box is lightly loaded, it is an 8 core box with load average about 0.2-0.4

Any ideas about what to check/do next? I only could find a post which suggests 
using:

kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 1

But I already set it and it has no effect...box has 4gb of memory:

CPU:  0.1% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle
Mem: 180M Active, 1584M Inact, 467M Wired, 131M Cache, 214M Buf, 1578M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8548K Used, 8184M Free


I have the following in make.conf

CPUTYPE?=core2

CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
CXXFLAGS+= -fconserve-space
COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe

NO_GAMES=true
NO_PROFILE=true

WITHOUT_X11=true

below is the kernel config file:

cpu             HAMMER
ident           WEB

options         SCHED_ULE               # ULE scheduler
options         PREEMPTION              # Enable kernel thread preemption
options         INET                    # InterNETworking
#options        INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
#options        SCTP                    # Stream Control Transmission Protocol
options         FFS                     # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         SOFTUPDATES             # Enable FFS soft updates support
options         UFS_DIRHASH             # Improve performance on big directories
options         UFS_GJOURNAL            # Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling
options         CD9660                  # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options         PROCFS                  # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options         PSEUDOFS                # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options         GEOM_PART_GPT           # GUID Partition Tables.
options         GEOM_LABEL              # Provides labelization
options         COMPAT_43TTY            # BSD 4.3 TTY compat [KEEP THIS!]
options         COMPAT_IA32             # Compatible with i386 binaries
options         COMPAT_FREEBSD4         # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options         COMPAT_FREEBSD5         # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options         COMPAT_FREEBSD6         # Compatible with FreeBSD6
options         SCSI_DELAY=5000         # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options         KTRACE                  # ktrace(1) support
options         STACK                   # stack(9) support
options         SYSVSHM                 # SYSV-style shared memory
options         SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues
options         SYSVSEM                 # SYSV-style semaphores
options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions
options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options         ADAPTIVE_GIANT          # Giant mutex is adaptive.
options         STOP_NMI                # Stop CPUS using NMI instead of IPI
#options        AUDIT                   # Security event auditing

# Make an SMP-capable kernel by default
options         SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel

# CPU frequency control
device          cpufreq

# Bus support.
device          acpi
device          pci

# Floppy drives
device          fdc

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device          ata
device          atadisk         # ATA disk drives
device          atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
options         ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering

# SCSI peripherals
device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
device          cd              # CD
device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
#device         ses             # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)

# RAID controllers interfaced to the SCSI subsystem
device          twa             # 3ware 9000 series PATA/SATA RAID

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device          atkbdc          # AT keyboard controller
device          atkbd           # AT keyboard
device          psm             # PS/2 mouse

device          kbdmux          # keyboard multiplexer

device          vga             # VGA video card driver

device          splash          # Splash screen and screen saver support

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device          sc

device          agp             # support several AGP chipsets

# PCI Ethernet NICs.
device          em              # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card
device          ixgb            # Intel PRO/10GbE Ethernet Card

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device          miibus          # MII bus support
device          dc              # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
device          fxp             # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device          re              # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
device          rl              # RealTek 8129/8139
device          sk              # SysKonnect SK-984x & SK-982x gigabit Ethernet
device          xl              # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')

# Pseudo devices.
device          loop            # Network loopback
device          random          # Entropy device
device          ether           # Ethernet support
device          pty             # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device          firmware        # firmware assist module

# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
# Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP.
device          bpf             # Berkeley packet filter

# USB support
device          uhci            # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device          ohci            # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device          ehci            # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device          usb             # USB Bus (required)
device          ugen            # Generic
device          uhid            # "Human Interface Devices"
device          ukbd            # Keyboard
device          umass           # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device          ums             # Mouse

# My Additions

# Statically Link in accept filters
options         ACCEPT_FILTER_DATA
options         ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP

# Other Devices & Options
device          snp             #Snoop device - to look at pty/vty/etc..



Any ideas on what might be going on?


Thanks,
Evren



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