From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 1 12:29:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E2037B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1259643E6A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by earth.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97222CC801; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:29:06 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:29:06 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash with KVM monitoring in place ... In-Reply-To: <200209011908.g81J8HbP014776@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20020901162738.X27764-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> 'trace'. If over several crashes it dies in the same place > :> then we at least have an idea where to look. > :> > :> How large is your swap space, or your largest free partition? > : > :My swap is only ~2gig, and my drive looks like: > > Right... then do as I suggested in a previous email. Reduce > the machine's memory to 2G via /boot/loader.conf: > > hw.physmem="2048m" > > Then reboot and turn on dumps to the swap device. If you > can reproduce the crash with the machine downgraded to 2G > we should get a dump we can work with. just as an appendum, after ~13hrs uptime, here is what top shows for the system ... last pid: 27376; load averages: 35.22, 25.35, 17.27 up 0+13:12:49 14:27:28 1265 processes:778 running, 487 sleeping CPU states: 50.4% user, 0.0% nice, 2.3% system, 0.2% interrupt, 47.1% idle Mem: 2413M Active, 876M Inact, 405M Wired, 161M Cache, 199M Buf, 22M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 8708K Used, 2039M Free To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message