From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 19:52:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F100416A469 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from forum@redpuppy.net) Received: from st143.startlogic.com (st143.startlogic.com [72.22.70.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D545713C4B2 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from forum@redpuppy.net) Received: (qmail 59682 invoked by uid 3128); 24 Sep 2007 19:46:51 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by st143.startlogic.com (envelope-from , uid 1002) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88/1245. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 6.149057 secs); 24 Sep 2007 19:46:51 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO st143.startlogic.com.com) (127.0.0.1) by st143.startlogic.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2007 19:46:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: To: forum@redpuppy.net, Bill Moran X-Origin: 208.57.242.131 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:43 -0700 X-Uidl: 20070924121358.7d76265d.wmoran@potentialtech.com X-Mailer: AtMail 4.03 X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <119066320592259585@st143.startlogic.com> Message-Id: <20070924195216.D545713C4B2@mx1.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: forum@redpuppy.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:52:17 -0000 It looks like a process associated with Postfix is eating up all of the mem= ory=0D and crashing the system. Im trying to find out which one now.=0D =0D Thanks for you help.=0D =0D Thron=0D =0D On Mon Sep 24 9:13 , Bill Moran sent:=0D =0D >In response to forum@redpuppy.net>:=0D >=0D >> Hi,=0D >> =0D >> I have a new 6.2 install running postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAs= sassin=0D >> and over the weekend the server stopped responding with the following er= ror.=0D >> collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. I did som= e google=0D >> searching on the error and found the same problem with Apache, but none = with my=0D >> configuration. Most of the sites say to increase the PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, b= ut none=0D >> say how or what to increase it to.=0D >=0D >I've never seen a modern version of FreeBSD lock up as a result of this,= =0D >so that's a little odd.=0D >=0D >> Does anyone have a suggestion on how I should go about troubleshooting t= his or=0D >> what I should change my PMAP_SHPGPERPROC to? Could this be a one time fl= uke and I=0D >> shouldn=92t worry about it?=0D >=0D >I had to research this earlier this year. The default is 200, so in my=0D >case, raising the value to 250 solved the problem. I fixed it by adding= =0D >the setting to my kernel config and building a new kernel. I believe=0D >you can also set it in loader.conf=0D >=0D >I haven't tried setting it higher than 250 (haven't had the need) but=0D >I've seen some posts suggesting that setting it too high can cause=0D >kernel panics. I recommend bumping it to 250, then go to 300 if the=0D >problem doesn't go away -- but in any event, don't increase it=0D >drastically.=0D >=0D >-- =0D >Bill Moran=0D >http://www.potentialtech.com=0D >=0D =0D =0D