Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 16:10:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1-RC2: strange kernel panic! Message-ID: <20060502201054.GA93912@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <002e01c66e1a$8fd083d0$dededede@avalon.lan> References: <20060502174604.GA91314@xor.obsecurity.org> <002e01c66e1a$8fd083d0$dededede@avalon.lan>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:59:38PM +0200, No@SPAM@mgEDV.net wrote: > > > Your kernel ran out of memory. Either you are using a workload that > > is too heavy for your current settings, or there is a memory leak > > somewhere in a kernel subsystem you are using. > > Try to increase VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX in your kernel, e.g. > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=524288000 #500MB > > You may need to increase it further. > > i'm not sure, but probably this does not solve our problem. Don't you think you should test it instead of guessing? :-) I suggested it because it *is* a possibility (that is why I have it in my kernel). > this system > is used as a compilation host only (currently) and therefore there are > no permanently running things like databases, huge daemons, etc... only > ssh and syslog is up in userland. so the main question to me is, where > the memory goes on this server, and how i can prevent this type of leak. > (and even maybe help you fixin' it ;-) > > our current settings are (default in GENERIC): > vm.kmem_size: 335544320 > vm.kmem_size_max: 335544320 > > the compilation system uses a 350MB swap-based memory-disk for compilation, > the whole disks are encrypted using GELI (AES256). network traffic is low > (only ssh commandline stuff, no huge transfers). > > when i issued the "du -sk" the panic occurred. Could be to do with GELI, I don't know about memory requirements. > 5min ago, the system panic'd again, this time some more was logged: > (originally, there have been >200 of these messages, numbers change, > error=same) > g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=346742784, length=6144)]error = 28 > g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=346750976, length=8192)]error = 28 > g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=346761216, length=6144)]error = 28 > g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=346767360, length=6144)]error = 28 > g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=346773504, length=6144)]error = 28 This is suspicious: #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ Are you sure you are using swap backing and not malloc? Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEV7zOWry0BWjoQKURAhTfAKDg4SjZCyQeVB75g2p/lbbhPWuGjACgyClM AzNmC4ZJ+3NxU0KYbns3YZ4= =0TGW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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