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Date:      Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:46:35 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, dandee@volny.cz
Subject:   Re: -current kernel can't be complied for 3 days 
Message-ID:  <65663.1122234395@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:25:30 EDT." <20050724192530.GB84677@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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In message <20050724192530.GB84677@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:

>There is a default limit of 16 simultaneous execs that can be easily
>saturated on an SMP system (further execs cause aborts as you are
>seeing).  Increase the value of the vm.exec_map_entries tunable.

Sounds like something which should be autotuned better to the number
of CPUS.

Also, the abort() sounds wrong, why not sleep and retry ?

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