From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 17 5:48: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freya.circle.net (freya.circle.net [209.95.95.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AF610EAD for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 05:47:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) Received: by freya.circle.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <1PTHLDVL>; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:47:00 -0500 Message-ID: From: tcobb@staff.circle.net To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: green@unixhelp.org, khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: RE: Problems in VM structure ? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:46:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dillon@apollo.backplane.com] > :What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs > :is partly at fault? > : > :-Troy Cobb > : Circle Net, Inc. > : http://www.circle.net > > With what config? Have you tried reducing maxusers to 128? > > -Matt I've had it at MAXUSERS=256 on both the P5 and the P6. The P5 stays stable, the P6 doesn't. If I reduce MAXUSERS to 128 then these heavily loaded boxen will fall over due to out of MBUFs errors, or so I believe. I'd love to find some real kernel-tuning documentation out there, one of my panics is a "pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe -- out of kvm" and I can't pull a crashdump due to a DSCHECK error because my SWAP is > 2GB. -Troy Cobb Circle Net, Inc. http://www.circle.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message