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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:32:49 +0500
From:      Sergey Gershtein <sg@ur.ru>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Strange lock-ups during backup over nfs after adding 1024M RAM
Message-ID:  <182699938898.20020123133249@ur.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020122154552.U12940-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <20020122154552.U12940-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 you wrote:
DW> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Doug White wrote:

DW> Try rebuilding your kernel with
DW> 
DW> maxusers 256
DW> 
DW> You may need to scale up the tables in the system to handle the additional
DW> memory.

It's already set to 512, is it too high?  We did not rebuild the
kernel after adding memory, it worked fine with maxusers 512 and
1024M RAM.

DW> On second thought, post your kernel config. It's possible to set a few
DW> things *too* high and have them blow up when you install the RAM and the
DW> page tables & other data structures double in size...

Here is goes:

machine         i386
cpu             I586_CPU
cpu             I686_CPU
ident           STORM
maxusers    512

options         MAXDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"
options         DFLDSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"

#options        MATH_EMULATE            #Support for x87 emulation
options         INET                    #InterNETworking
#options        INET6                   #IPv6 communications protocols
options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         FFS_ROOT                #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
options         MFS                     #Memory Filesystem
options         MD_ROOT                 #MD is a potential root device
options         NFS                     #Network Filesystem
#options        NFS_ROOT                #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
options         MSDOSFS                 #MSDOS Filesystem
options         CD9660                  #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options         CD9660_ROOT             #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
options         PROCFS                  #Process filesystem
options         COMPAT_43               #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options         SCSI_DELAY=10000        #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
#options        UCONSOLE                #Allow users to grab the console
options         USERCONFIG              #boot -c editor
options         VISUAL_USERCONFIG       #visual boot -c editor
options         KTRACE                  #ktrace(1) support
options         SYSVSHM                 #SYSV-style shared memory
options         SYSVMSG                 #SYSV-style message queues
options         SYSVSEM                 #SYSV-style semaphores
options         P1003_1B                #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options         ICMP_BANDLIM            #Rate limit bad replies
options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev

options         IPFIREWALL                      #firewall
options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE      #print information about dropped packets
options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10

options         QUOTA                   #enable disk quotas

# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
options         SMP                             # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
options         APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O

device          isa
device          eisa
device          pci

# Floppy drives
device          fdc0    at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device          fd0     at fdc0 drive 0
#device         fd1     at fdc0 drive 1

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device          ata0    at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device          ata1    at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
device          ata
#device         atadisk                 # ATA disk drives
device          atapicd                 # ATAPI CDROM drives
options         ATA_STATIC_ID           #Static device numbering
#options        ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA    #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices

# SCSI Controllers
device          ahc             # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices

#device         aha0    at isa?
device          aic0    at isa?

# SCSI peripherals
device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required)
device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
#device         sa              # Sequential Access (tape etc)
#device         cd              # CD
device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device          atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device         atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device          psm0    at atkbdc? irq 12

device          vga0    at isa?

# splash screen/screen saver
#pseudo-device  splash

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device          sc0     at isa? flags 0x100

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device          npx0    at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13

# Power management support (see LINT for more options)
#device         apm0    at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management

# Serial (COM) ports
device          sio0    at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device          sio1    at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
#device         sio2    at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
#device         sio3    at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9

# Parallel port
device          ppc0    at isa? irq 7
device          ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
device          lpt             # Printer
device          plip            # TCP/IP over parallel
device          ppi             # Parallel port interface device
#device         vpo             # Requires scbus and da

# MII bus support is required for some PCI 10/100 ethernet NICs,
# namely those which use MII-compliant transceivers or implement
# tranceiver control interfaces that operate like an MII. Adding
# "device miibus0" to the kernel config pulls in support for
# the generic miibus API and all of the PHY drivers, including a
# generic one for PHYs that aren't specifically handled by an
# individual driver.
device          miibus

# PCI Ethernet NICs.
device          fxp             # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocated.
pseudo-device   loop            # Network loopback
pseudo-device   ether           # Ethernet support
#pseudo-device  sl      1               # Kernel SLIP
#pseudo-device  ppp     1               # Kernel PPP
pseudo-device   tun                     # Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device   pty                     # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device   md                      # Memory "disks"
#pseudo-device  gif     4               # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
#pseudo-device  faith   1       # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
pseudo-device   snp             3       # snoop device

# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
pseudo-device   bpf             #Berkeley packet filter


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