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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:40:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sergey Gershtein <sg@ur.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange lock-ups during backup over nfs after adding 1024M RAM
Message-ID:  <20020122153919.O12940-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <71617262877.20020122143447@ur.ru>

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Sergey Gershtein wrote:

> Our server runs FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE.  Until recently everything was
> ok, but when we increased the amount of RAM from 1024Mb to 2048Mb
> strange lock-ups started to happen.  All lock-ups happened at night
> where activity was pretty low.  We run backup over nfs nightly, and
> there is a good chance it is nfs that causes the problem. When the
> lock-ups happen backup is usually somewhere in the middle and after
> the server is restarted backup finishes ok.

Try rebuilding your kernel with

maxusers 256

You may need to scale up the tables in the system to handle the additional
memory.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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