Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:23:01 +0300 From: Tarasov Alexey <lexa@wincmd.ru> To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT Message-ID: <43F595F5.4050006@wincmd.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060215024339.N22450@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <20060215024339.N22450@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
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Hello! I have the same problem on my laptop. It works very slow (Pentium M 1.7 GHz). There are a lot of "can't allocate swap space" messages in /var/log/messages. Best regards, Tarasov Alexey. Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > Hello! > > I've got a relatively fresh (12-Feb-2006 14:20 UTC) CURRENT on my ASUS > M5A notebook (CPU Pentium M 1.86GHz, 256 Mb memory), kernel config is: > > ftp://external.atlantis.dp.ua/FreeBSD/CURRENT/NOTEBOOK > > I have several questions regarding virtual memory use, both user-mode > and kernel. > > 1) Is it normal that virtual memory size for almost every non-kernel > process > is close to 50Mb now: > > ftp://external.atlantis.dp.ua/FreeBSD/CURRENT/top.txt > > Is it miscalculation or real growth of virtual address space? > > > 2) I can _trivially_ crash my box by extracting and deleting > Openoffice.org > distribution: > > cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0 > NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes make extract clean > > However, I can't obtain crash dump in most cases, see the picture: > > ftp://external.atlantis.dp.ua/FreeBSD/CURRENT/nodump.jpg > > Is it due to new ATA DMA dump code, or due to some other reason? > I've never seen such dump failures before. > > > 3) Once I was lucky enought to obtain a valid crash dump in this > situation. > Here is the backtrace: > > ftp://external.atlantis.dp.ua/FreeBSD/CURRENT/bt > > What tunables can I use to prevent this panic? Alas tuning(7) doesn't > say anything about "mem_map too small". Is it tuning issue at all > or a bug? > > > Sincerely, Dmitry
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