From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 08:38:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD6F37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.advantagecom.net (mail.advantagecom.net [65.103.151.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD8343F75 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andykinney@advantagecom.net) Received: from SCSI-MONSTER (scsi-monster.advantagecom.net [207.109.186.200]) by mail.advantagecom.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7CFcgu29834; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:38:43 -0700 From: "Andrew Kinney" Organization: Advantagecom Networks, Inc. To: Mark Powell Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:39:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <3F38A7B4.11019.1D89310E@localhost> Priority: normal References: <3F33A657.14987.9FBDCE9@localhost> In-reply-to: <20030812094221.V10241@plato.salford.ac.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic during nfs operations in 4.8S on Dell 2650 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: andykinney@advantagecom.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:38:46 -0000 On 12 Aug 2003, at 9:44, Mark Powell wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: > > > On 8 Aug 2003, at 11:52, Mark Powell wrote: > > > > > #6 0xc0312ea3 in generic_bzero () > > > > FWIW, I think this is where the problem occurred. Probably tried to > > zero a page that didn't exist because of a failed KVA allocation. > > > > We had several panics on one of our 4GB machines at the same > > point. Our solution was to increase the KVA space to 2GB from > > 1GB and rebuild the whole world with the new KVA setting. The > > panics disappeared. > > Yep, that was it. Well I upped KVA_PAGES from the default of 260 (in > LINT?) to 384 and rebuilt the kernel. Sysctl shows it now has plenty > to spare when running the rsyncs. > Why did you have to rebuild world when changing this and not just > the > kernel? Well, it's been awhile since I did this, but it seems like we were having some trouble with some applications or system utilities. It could have just been that we had some stuff out of synch on that system since it had been upgraded from 4.5-RELEASE to 4.7- RELEASE and then to 4.8-RELEASE. Sincerely, Andrew Kinney President and Chief Technology Officer Advantagecom Networks, Inc. http://www.advantagecom.net