From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 31 13:48:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D2D37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from smtp.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA16256; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:48:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:48:34 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Ron Klinkien Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unstable stable-release? Message-ID: <20010531134834.O23522@johncoop> Reply-To: FreeBSD-STABLE References: <000701c0ea10$671e7700$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> <20010531133830.M23522@johncoop> <000c01c0ea12$30358a60$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000c01c0ea12$30358a60$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl>; from ron@zappa.demon.nl on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 13:42:16 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Lines: 66 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 2001.05.31 13:42 Ron Klinkien wrote: > Thanks, will try that ( if i can compile the kernel before it panics > that > is..) > > Tomorrow I swap memory hardware, and maybe go back to 4.3-release to > isolate the problem... > > Ron. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Merryweather Cooper" > To: "Ron Klinkien" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:38 PM > Subject: Re: Unstable stable-release? > > > > On 2001.05.31 13:29 Ron Klinkien wrote: > > > > > > For the last few days my server is very unstable, > > > it panics mostly when compiling kernel and/or world. > > > > > > I had also an fxp0 intel card added, but after reading about > > > miibus problems, changed it to an xl0 type, it made no difference. > > > > > > I cvsupped/rebuild today (31 may) > > > > > > The last one is: > > > > > > savecore -N /kernel /var/crash > > > savecore: reboot after panic: vm_page_insert: already inserted > > > savecore: system went down at Thu May 31 22:10:20 2001 > > > savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device (227514 > available, > > > need > > > 297068) > > > > > > As you can see, I have to create some space before I can give more > > > details... > > > > > > In the meantime can anyone give a pointer where to look? > > > Still hardware or am I not the only one? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Ron. > > > > > > > I'm definitely no kernel expert, but in the past week or so I've had > > crashes updating/building ports with recent kernels. As an ad hoc > > solution (no guarantee it either: 1) points to the actual problem; > or > > 2) really works), I've increased the size of PMAP_SHPGPERPROC (which > > appears to default to 200). This seems to have made the > vm_page-related > > panics disappear, and also greatly improved the responsiveness of > > mozilla-0.9,1. But, most definitely, YMMV . . . > > > > jmc > > > > I was able to rebuild my kernel by forcing a boot to kernel.GENERIC, recompiling world and kernel under it, and rebooting. YMMV. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message