From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 15 15:17:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20EA2AD for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:17:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davide.italiano@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-x233.google.com (mail-vc0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A40B82E06 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id ht10so5194912vcb.24 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:17:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=BceUZ+bSCWkOeY1RS8olmXOclfurHTOLhZL18gKRxsc=; b=BhPKnmFDJmP1udw3bnB+KiBpgpWfg+WM8k3qmxWlHgthBMl+nV4FnNSjmyAbytnroa DQC4fQp6cJJNfUCEuEAlg0WArDxor5IBop2QdD7HWVXCMmwOBC5nkKP2swqsdIUl7y9j MYzJLDDQadUMq0DHo3isNbUEDDqxMiJOnB888jK7dBcsoJmBIowWYXLuRxBSaZu/73X3 y0lodxCFN3u8olNABedDxJIPmu5y28esNtXaG482AYmL/AbIV/9mMp4gD5ys+0WJWdDG Ydsqhg1I2Rxgr/2ctLHHCJbJ618QekDJwal0U8PgsYhQYrDugMUFDUbjd5WVwkQZAAk/ ifQQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.221.40.10 with SMTP id to10mr1315529vcb.22.1381850224793; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: davide.italiano@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.94.71 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:17:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201310151417.r9FEHRe8047121@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201310151417.r9FEHRe8047121@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:17:04 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: T09ba7-rtZ1dkc_1IVbpR3IDV3c Message-ID: Subject: Re: WITNESS: unable to allocate a new witness object From: Davide Italiano To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:17:05 -0000 On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm trying to set up textdump(4). > > On boot I see: > > WITNESS: unable to allocate a new witness object > > also It means that you run out of WITNESS object on the free list. > > Expensive timeout(9) function: 0x9ffc000000e222e0(0xa0000000009ed320) 0.002434387 s > kickstart. > It's output from DIAGNOSTIC, it's triggered when the callout handler execution time exceeds a given threshold. You can safely ignore it. Also, please stop spamming on mailing lists with new posts. They more or less all refers to the same problem. Keeps posting doesn't encourage people to look at it, neither it helps to have it solved more quickly. Thanks, -- Davide "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved" -- Henri Poincare