Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:50:06 -0400 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Subject: Re: Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator Message-ID: <42B2F12E.5000005@videotron.ca> 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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-----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-----
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