From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 23 15:17:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.42.org (matrix.42.org [194.246.250.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075A437B423; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sec@42.org) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id AAA20755 (sender ); Thu, 24 May 2001 00:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:17:02 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: phk@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world Message-ID: <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org> X-Current-Backlog: 641 messages References: <200105231932.f4NJWmf06622@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200105231932.f4NJWmf06622@freefall.freebsd.org>; from phk@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:32:48PM -0700 I-love-doing-this: really X-Modeline: vim:set ts=8 sw=4 smarttab tw=72 si noic notitle: Accept-Languages: de, en X-URL: http://sec.42.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:32:48PM -0700, phk@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: md causes hang with make world > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: phk > State-Changed-When: Wed May 23 12:32:02 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > The md driver uses non-swappable ram for storage. You have simply > RAM-starved your system to death. What leads you to that conlusion? Can you elaborate on that a bit more? The machine in question has 1G of physical ram and the Malloc disk (md) is 600Megs big. The remaining 400Megs should be more than enough for the system to run normally, shouldn't it? If not, why? And shouldn't there be a note to that effect in the md manpage? CU, Sec -- "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -Western Union internal memo, 1876 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message