From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 4 10:15:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5346237B401; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:15:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (www.metrocom.ru [195.5.128.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA7443EC2; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@metrocom.ru) Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apache.metrocom.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB4IFrck012182; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:15:53 +0300 (MSK) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by apache.metrocom.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gB4IFqtv012179; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:15:53 +0300 (MSK) X-Authentication-Warning: apache.metrocom.ru: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:15:52 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander To: Terry Lambert Cc: , Subject: Re: maxusers and random system freezes In-Reply-To: <3DEE4539.238D0F6B@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > Can it be so that kernel maxusers=768 value being more than 512 leads to > > spontaneous system freezes which can take up to several hours when the > > system is just sleeping (only replying to ping) and doing nothing else, > > not allowing to telnet or anything. The system is 4.5-STABLE with much RAM > > (4 Gb) and the box has a heavy enough traffic so a bunch of other kernel > > options have been increased: > > [ ... settings ... ] > > With these settings, and that much physical RAM, you should set > your KVA space to 3G (the default is 2G); have you? > > Most likely, you are running out of KVA space for mappings. No, I didn't do it, and I'm not sure how to perform it, can you please advise? Thanks a lot! > > -- Terry > ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message