Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:24:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: mki@mozone.net Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5-RELEASE panic in getnewvnode() Message-ID: <20020410192413.D7095@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20020410174447.B18337@cyclonus.mozone.net>; from mki@mozone.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:44:47PM -0700 References: <20020410170103.A18337@cyclonus.mozone.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020410202016.0549f008@192.168.0.12> <20020410174447.B18337@cyclonus.mozone.net>
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>On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> At 05:01 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, mki@mozone.net wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >We're running 4.5-RELEASE, and can reproduce the following panic by simply >> >doing a find / ; both with softupdates on or off. It generally seems to >> >crash within /usr/ports. >> >> Did you try this out on a STABLE box ? I tried it both on a UP and SMP >> stable box (find / ;) and it made it through everything. > >It appears that it's related to the fact that I was setting nmbclusters >to 64000 during boot, when we reduced this to 60000, the problem was >addressed. > >I wonder if raising the kva space would address this (ie be able to >have that high (or even higher) nmbclusters) while not causing the >machine to panic when it's doing things like a find. Based on what you've said, I would yes, that running out of KVA space is the cause of the problem and is easily fixed by increasing it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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