From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 17 13:35:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B2B1120C for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely7.cicely.de) Received: from cicely7.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA22898; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:34:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely7.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) id WAA29070; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:34:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19990217223407.17498@cicely.de> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:34:07 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: tcobb@staff.circle.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: green@unixhelp.org, khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems in VM structure ? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from tcobb@staff.circle.net on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:46:49AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:46:49AM -0500, tcobb@staff.circle.net wrote: > > > > -----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 my case it was a P-II 400 > 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. > The pipeinit is one of the panics I got very often - but they were not reduced to > > -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 -- B.Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message