From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 5 20:51: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500B137B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E15B43E4A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by earth.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CB82CC820; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:51:02 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:51:02 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [JUPITER] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode (Was: Re: Woo hoo ... it crashed!! ) In-Reply-To: <200209060259.g862xkqJ084692@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20020906004711.X5296-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Okay, just to confirm, but all you want me to change is to set kern.maxvnodes to 150000, correct? > sysctl kern.maxvnodes kern.maxvnodes: 150000 If so, done on both servers and rebooted ... Side question ... is there a config file that I can use to tell the kernel to auto-load netdump_client on reboot, or do I just add 'kldload netdump_client' to /etc/rc.local? On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > ps -M vmcore.jupiter.00 -N kernel.jupiter -ax | wc -l > 2071 > > The huge number of processes are eating a huge number of PV entries for > page table mappings. Over 121 megabytes, in fact! > > I have one word to say about all of this: Wow. S'alright, I've had it climb to >3000 ... I love the fact that the server hardly breaks a sweat most times ... I've even seen the loadavg hit >500 and still be able to login to correct it ... :) Just as an FYI ... these machines are Dual PIII's, 4Gig of RAM and run 149 and 94 jail servers respectively ... other then the crashes, I've been most impressed with how both the OS and the hardware has been handling things ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message