From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 08:24:37 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 8F6BC37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law10-oe65.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0804743F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from segr@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:24:34 -0700 Received: from 142.173.139.189 by law10-oe65.law10.hotmail.com with DAV; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:24:34 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [142.173.139.189] X-Originating-Email: [segr@hotmail.com] From: "Stephane Raimbault" To: References: Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:24:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jul 2003 15:24:34.0868 (UTC) FILETIME=[859F9740:01C3512E] cc: Bosko Milekic 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 15:24:37 -0000 Thanks Bosko, I've changed my /boot/loader.conf to reflect the kern.vm.kmem.size option. kern.vm.kmem.size="350000" As far as changing the nmbclusters, I'm not sure how many I use now. Do you know where I could get some values as what the total vs. how much is being used for the above values? I'll setup some graphs to monitor those values for me and get an idea of how much the system is using and when if I can. Also, I took a quick look at the developers handbook and couldn't find just yet what I needed to change to the kernel to provide a stack trace... do you know what options I should be adding to my kernel? Also, should I try not to use an SMP kernel and just run GENERIC to see if continues to have the problem? I can probably run on one CPU for a few days, especially over the weekend. Thanks, Stephane. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosko Milekic" Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.current Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:14 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1-R kernel panic > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"