From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 17:45:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0E416A422 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:45:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1924043D58 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:45:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313B62C903 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:43 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09970-09 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCDB62C7E2 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:42 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1301E370C0; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DFA3559B for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:49 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:45:48 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060401134154.L947@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: [4-STABLE] vm.kvm_free > vm.kvm_size ... how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:45:50 -0000 I recently upgraded one of my servers to the latest 4-STABLE ... we're just starting to migrate servers to 6.x, but I can't do this one yet ... after an indeterminate period of time running with a little bit of load, the server crashes with a page fault ... I have a script hat runs every 12 minutes or so taht reports various things to syslog, including teh above two sysctl variables ... looking at the times for the last two crashes, I'm noticing that kvm_free is *way* bigger (~4x) then kvm_size ... What would cause this? And/or what else should I be looking at? Apr 1 06:12:00 mars root: vm.kvm_size: 1069543424 Apr 1 06:12:00 mars root: vm.kvm_free: 8384512 Apr 1 06:24:01 mars root: vm.kvm_size: 1069543424 Apr 1 06:24:01 mars root: vm.kvm_free: 4294963200 Until I upgraded, the only problem that the server was showing was related to a failed hard drive ... never anything like the above :( Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664