From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Apr 7 14:46:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CE537B404; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.3/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id QAA69682; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:46:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200204072146.QAA69682@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled To: tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:46:09 -0500 (CDT) Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net (Joe Greco), freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3CB0B765.6246839C@mindspring.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 07, 2002 02:17:25 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Joe Greco wrote: > > I've got a new Tyan S2462 with dual AMD MP 1800+'s and a gig or two of > ******************* > > RAM, which is being used to provide shell services to some users who have > *** > > a variety of applications running. It's virtually identical to another > > that I got and love, which is being used for Usenet news stuff. > > If you could tell us *exactly* how much RAM you have, rather > than making us pick a random number between 1 and 3 (1|2 == 3 > ...8-)), then it would be easier to give a definitive answer. It's varied a bit, because I've raided some RAM out of the box-in-trouble to put as much as 3.5GB in my news transit box. Right now, the B-i-T only has 1GB. The other thing I just saw was that the problem went away during its last incarnation. If someone is interested in looking at a kernel dump, I'll do as Matt Dillon suggested and see if I can get a core. > However... > > This will make no sense whatsoever, unless you have been in the > bowels of the startup code, but... > > options MAXFILES 50000 > options DISABLE_PSE > > If you still have the problem, set your KVA from the default of > 1G to 2G or even 3G (depending on how much RAM you have) AND do > this. Noted. -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message