From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 17 5:36:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174E437B400 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77D043E84 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7HCadj44825; Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:36:39 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208171236.g7HCadj44825@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: VM panic In-Reply-To: <200208170745.g7H7jdQg003983@grimreaper.grondar.org> from Mark Murray at "Aug 17, 2002 08:45:38 am" To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:36:39 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If I do a "make -jN world" build on my dual MMX/200 box, I usually end > up in tears (well, a panic anyway). This is completely reproducible, and > the panic always happens in swapout_procs while vmdaemon is running. > > Anyone else getting this? What kind of value do you use for N? It looks like lately the makefiles are too aggressive when using -j, so you end up with N * N * 2 processes running simultaneously. On my -current box with 128M RAM, I used -j13 for a long time, but that runs out of swap nowadays, so I'm using -j4 which does work. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message