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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:34:07 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
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 ?
Message-ID:  <19990217223407.17498@cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <A0CFA284C004D211B7EE0060082F32A412E209@freya.circle.net>; from tcobb@staff.circle.net on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:46:49AM -0500
References:  <A0CFA284C004D211B7EE0060082F32A412E209@freya.circle.net>

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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
> 
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  B.Walter



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