From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 16:54:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F1E16A401 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:54:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=7c9574213f3439abd75dcde8fef0fcd52fe31f17=es.net==7c9574213f3439abd75dcde8fef0fcd52fe31f17=283=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF33D13C45B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:54:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=7c9574213f3439abd75dcde8fef0fcd52fe31f17=es.net==7c9574213f3439abd75dcde8fef0fcd52fe31f17=283=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal4.es.net (postal4.es.net [198.124.252.66]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id CTM08137 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:37 -0700 Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id CTM91434 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:34 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id CTM45433; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:33 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 59FCB45047; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:33 -0700 (PDT) To: Oliver Fromme In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:26:56 BST." <200703231626.l2NGQukl004840@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1174668093_91396P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:33 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20070323164133.59FCB45047@ptavv.es.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another error with md malloc based fs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:54:24 -0000 --==_Exmh_1174668093_91396P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Oliver, Thanks for this excellent article. I was trying to write about the same thing, but keep it simple enough to improve the chances of it crossing the language barrier weel enough to be useful. I believe you did a really good job of this and saved me several minutes of tying to do the same. I thought the warning in the man page was adequate (until 7.0 changes the default to swap backed), but, at least in Michael's case, I guess I was wrong. I guess the man page need to somehow make it clear that the memory used by malloc backed mds is a very limited resource. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1174668093_91396P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFGBAM9kn3rs5h7N1ERApjPAJ45x62DkC6Za5VsF9YAyxukv/9YNgCfXz68 zYmtz2WOImeRaDDeja0jpmU= =JlO9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1174668093_91396P--