From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 15:51:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD3016A41C; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:51:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B088F43D1D; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:51:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from [10.0.0.147] ([67.70.237.74]) by VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPA id <0II8006I3JZIAE@VL-MO-MR007.ip.videotron.ca>; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:50:06 -0400 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" In-reply-to: <20050617123954.W56734@fledge.watson.org> To: Robert Watson Message-id: <42B2F12E.5000005@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050330) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 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> Cc: alc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Eric Anderson Subject: Re: Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:51:53 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. Well, I had this problem since the day of the commit. I didn't had time to investigate what was happening so I just reverted to an older known working kernel. It might be a peculiarity of my setup that caused it to fail earlier though. Steph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsvEumdOXtTCX/nsRAhuZAJ94ouxzf6Hl8O5QsStk4q7SG3WsgACdEGnO xTRTl6Ypo/sccfcfaOU7Zgk= =Km7g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----