Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:18:35 +0000 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> To: Stephane Raimbault <segr@hotmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-R kernel panic Message-ID: <20030723111835.GA70248@technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <Law10-OE54QjA2xkJKs00017a16@hotmail.com> References: <bfilsg$1fp9$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <Law10-OE54QjA2xkJKs00017a16@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:08:18AM -0600, Stephane Raimbault wrote: ... > I was looking at uping the kern.vm.kmem.size as suggested to do as well, but > I cannot find that value in sysctl -a, so I'm not sure where to set that > specifically. I have found the value for nmbclusters and it is set to the > following: It's a boot-time tunable. Look at /boot/defaults/loader.conf and copy over the relevant line with a setting such as, for example, 350000 into your /boot/loader.conf. Increasing nmbclusters will not help you here. In fact, if you're not running out, I would recommend keeping the value reasonable (e.g., 8192). > kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 25600 > > I guess short of setting the kern.vm.kmem.size I need to get someone here > the stack trace leading to the crash... is there a URL that someone can > point me to for me to set the box up for this? I'll dig around in the > developers handbook, I seem to remember seeing something about it in there. > > Thanks, > Stephane. ... -- Bosko Milekic * bmilekic@technokratis.com * bmilekic@FreeBSD.org TECHNOkRATIS Consulting Services * http://www.technokratis.com/
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