From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 08:14:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 99E1D37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godel.mtl.distributel.net (nat.MTL.distributel.NET [66.38.181.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4B843F93 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@technokratis.com) Received: from godel.mtl.distributel.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6NBIZEH070274; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:18:35 GMT (envelope-from bmilekic@technokratis.com) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by godel.mtl.distributel.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6NBIZea070273; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:18:35 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: godel.mtl.distributel.net: bmilekic set sender to bmilekic@technokratis.com using -f Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:18:35 +0000 From: Bosko Milekic To: Stephane Raimbault Message-ID: <20030723111835.GA70248@technokratis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-R kernel panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:14:29 -0000 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/