Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:46:31 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: "Nick's Lists" <mrlist@noid.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe -- out of kvm -- code = 3 Message-ID: <20010504094631.N18676@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <030801c0d475$bd1e0fe0$0102010a@noid.org>; from mrlist@noid.org on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:38:28AM -0700 References: <026b01c0d1b9$161f0320$3ba2640a@int.netzero.net> <030801c0d475$bd1e0fe0$0102010a@noid.org>
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* Nick's Lists <mrlist@noid.org> [010504 01:40] wrote: > Thought I'd repost this, and provide an update and see if anyone has any > suggestions :) > > I've gone ahead and done a cvs-up to 4.3Stable with no change in stability > (So much for stable huh? <grin>). The box is staying up for about 6 hours at > a time between crashes with maxusers = 1024. I'm going to go ahead and put a > new kernel in that's got maxusers = 16, and set maxfiles = 5000 and NPROC = > 2068 in param.c. I'm doing this mainly to follow along with my theory that > bumping maxusers up too high is squeezing the system for kvm somehow, and by > keeping maxusers down, and artificially bumping maxfiles and NPROC up I can > try and keep the system stable. > > The whole reason this is coming about is that I'm currently evaluating > FreeBSD vs Solaris x86 to use in my production mail environment to replace > the 30 something Sparc Solaris and 3 or 4 Linux boxes that I'm currently > using. Its interesting to note that an identical box running Solaris x86 8 > is handling the same load without any problems at all. Its a bit dispointing > tho, as I"ve done some side by side comparisons of FreeBSD and Sol x86 > running on identical hardware taking an identical load, and the BSD box uses > less memory and CPU then the x86. If I could just keep the thing stable, it > would make it a much better choice than going with Sol x86. > > Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Try compiling your kernel with PIPE_NODIRECT. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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