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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:13:37 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        donaldbaud@yahoo.com, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD10.3-RELEASE. Kernel panic.
Message-ID:  <a450f0eb-378a-2bd5-2f24-a0eb6b941856@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <2033449965.65391.1476244568309@mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <CAAFYNruF4gFAiTCAhyRUQzcovW2osrKn4ehiuNR0btJCZbnOGg@mail.gmail.com> <57FC859F.5000200@grosbein.net> <CAJajdNUXOrzWDKVmSB1Xm_G6zqBhMsZ2vesDcAw2CPGFBU0xtg@mail.gmail.com> <2033449965.65391.1476244568309@mail.yahoo.com>

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On 11/10/2016 8:56 PM, Donald Baud via freebsd-net wrote:
> I've been plagued with these =daily= panics until I tried the following recipes and the server has been up for 30 days so far:
>
> Normally I should expermient more to see which one of the receipes is really the fix, but I'm just glad that the server is stable for now.

this is really great information.
It makes debugging a lot more possible.
I know it is a hard question, but do you have a way to simulate this 
workload?

I have no real way to simulate this kind of workload
>
>
> recipe-1: Don't let mpd5 start automatically when server boots:
> i.e. in: /etc/rc.conf
> mpd5_enable="NO"
> and wait about 5 minutes after server boots then issue:
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mpd5 onestart
>
>
> recipe-2: recompile the kernel with the NETGRAPH_DEBUG option:
> options         NETGRAPH
> options         NETGRAPH_DEBUG
> options         NETGRAPH_KSOCKET
> options         NETGRAPH_L2TP
> options         NETGRAPH_SOCKET
> options         NETGRAPH_TEE
> options         NETGRAPH_VJC
> options         NETGRAPH_PPP
> options         NETGRAPH_IFACE
> options         NETGRAPH_MPPC_COMPRESSION
> options         NETGRAPH_MPPC_ENCRYPTION
> options         NETGRAPH_TCPMSS
> options         IPFIREWALL
>
> recipe-3: recompile the kernel and disable the IPv6 and SCTP options:
> nooptions       INET6
> nooptions       SCTP
>
> recipe-4: Don't use any of the sysctl optimizations
> in other words I commented out all values in sysctl.conf:
> # net.graph.maxdgram=20480  (this is the default)
> # net.graph.recvspace=20480  (this is the default)
>
> recipe-5: Don't use any of the loader.conf optimizations
> in other words I commented out all values in loader.conf
> # net.graph.maxdata=4096  (this is the default)
> # net.graph.maxalloc=4096 (this is the default)
>
> ================================
> In my case, I had the panics with 10.3 and 11-PRERELEASE
> 11.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE #2 r305587
>
> With those recipes, I have been running without any crash for a month and counting.  Thats' 300 l2tp tunnels and 1400 l2tp sessions generating 700Mbit/s.
>
>
> -DBaud
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:30 AM, Cassiano Peixoto <peixotocassiano@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are many users complaining about this:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186114
>
> I've been dealing with this issue for one year with no solution. mpd5 as
> pppoe server on FreeBSD is useless with this bug.
>
> I really would like to see it working again, i think it's quite important
> to both project and many users.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
>
>> 11.10.2016 11:02, Андрей Леушкин пишет:
>>
>>> Hello. I have problem with "FreeBSD nas 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE
>>> #0: Fri Oct  7 21:12:56 YEKT 2016    nas@nas:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/nasv3
>>>    amd64"
>>>
>>> Kernel panic is repeated at intervals of 2-3 days. At first I thought that
>>> the problem is in the hardware, but the problem did not go away after
>>> replacing the server platform.
>>>
>>> Coredumps and more info on link
>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxciMy2q7ZjTTkIxem9wTE1tM2M
>>>
>>> Sorry for my english.
>>> I'll wait for an answer.
>>>
>> This is known and long-stanging problem in the FreeBSD network stack.
>> It shows up when you have lots of network interfaced created/removed
>> frequently
>> like in your case of Network Access Server (PPtP, PPPoE etc).
>>
>> Generally, people run into this problem using mpd5 network daemon.
>> mpd5 uses NETGRAPH kernel subsystem to process traffic and
>> if an interface disappears (f.e., ,user disconnected)
>> while kernel still processes traffic obtained from this interface, it
>> panices.
>>
>> There were lots of reports of this problem. Noone seems to be working on
>> it at the moment.
>> You should fill a PR using Bugzilla and attach your logs to it.
>>
>> Eugene Grosbein
>>
>>
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