Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:59:45 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator Message-ID: <42B2BB31.7000809@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050617123954.W56734@fledge.watson.org> References: <42B18536.3080200@videotron.ca> <20050616151502.X27625@fledge.watson.org> <42B192D2.7000505@videotron.ca> <20050616181820.E27625@fledge.watson.org> <42B1B784.8010405@videotron.ca> <20050616184127.L27625@fledge.watson.org> <20050617110902.C56734@fledge.watson.org> <42B2B4C0.1030504@centtech.com> <20050617123954.W56734@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>> Interestingly, there's been a bunch of reports of this in the past >>> few days, and there weren't immediately after the malloc commit. I >>> wonder if some other recent change has increased the amount of UMA >>> memory allocated early in the boot, increasing the level of reports... >> >> >> Increase UMA_BOOT_PAGES to prevent a crash during initialization. See >> http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42AD8270.8060906 for a detailed >> description of the crash. > > > Yeah, this is the fix, but I guess I'm wondering what caused a recent > spate of problem reports -- was it a delayed response to the malloc > change as people gradually upgraded, or some other recent kernel change > that caused increase demand for memory. For me, it was the recent lack of apathy - finally getting around to trying some combos for suspending my laptop, I noticed that having apic+smp in my kernel made me crash on boot. Maybe it's some of the modules that have changed - the ones that caused the problems for me were: snd_pcm snd_ich sound vkbd If those weren't loaded via loader.conf, I was fine. Maybe the change is inside one of those. As I've said before, I'm no coder, so take all that with a grain of salt - but hopefully it's helpful to someone. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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