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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:38:39 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        "David C. Snyder" <dsnyder@web.turner.com>, Phil Rosenthal <winter@villaweb.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dell 4350 SMP faults
Message-ID:  <20020123213839.C53456@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020123130842.R56623-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:09:27PM -0800
References:  <20020123142149.U1006-100000@dcs-vaio.turner.com> <20020123130842.R56623-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:09:27PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > > I have a problem that all my Dell 1550's crash when they have 2GB of
> > > ram, but are stable with 1GB of ram, the exact same kernel works
> > > fine on a STL2 with 2GB of ram.
> >
> > We've seen the same symptom on a Dell PowerEdge 1550.  In our case, we
> > upgraded the RAM from 768 MB to 2 GB without increasing swap space.
> > We only have 1 GB of swap.  I assumed that this was part of the
> > problem since the boot messages had something to do with swap or
> > virtual memory.
>=20
> You have the same problem someone else in the list has -- you have
> maxusers too high. Drop maxusers to 128 and make sure you're running a
> recent -STABLE.

Isn't this going to cause problems with the recent "maxusers 0" code?

IIRC, that sets maxusers equal to the amount of RAM, in MB, with low/high
limits of 32/512.

So a 512MB system with "maxusers 0" is going to behave as though it had
been configured with "maxusers 512".

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