From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 4:38:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B8D37B430 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0038.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.38] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LjE1-0000rT-00; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:38:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3D146194.5496D5D7@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:37:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Thomas Cc: Nielsen , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ? References: <20020622040208.J68572-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Thomas wrote: > Since all of the things you spoke of basically revolved around "you're > running out of memory", is it possible or reasonable to think that within > the space of 1 second, I ran through 1404 megs inactive and 28 megs free > memory ? > > machine is 4.5-RELEASE with 3gigs ram. swap never gets touched, although > there is in fact 2gigs of swap. `pstat -s` always shows 0% used. OK, there's memory, and then there's memory. The amount of swap you have, the fact that it's 4.5, and the amount of RAM you have imply to me that the problem is that you are out of pmap entries. You should up your KVA space to 2G or maybe even 3G; the default in 4.5 was 1G. Basically, I now think that you don't have enough memory to map how much memory and virtual memory you have. Amusingly enough, you might actually have *better* luck with a lot less swap... If your KVA space is already enlarged above the default, then you can ignore this and just go ahead with the debugging to see what the wait channels for all the processes that won't run are stuck at. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message