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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:11:17 +0200
From:      Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd7@klop.yi.org>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic with heavy writing on md device
Message-ID:  <opsaduw308m97yfk@outgoing.local>
In-Reply-To: <20040629235221.GF1144@green.homeunix.org>
References:  <opsadjt1vqm97yfk@outgoing.local> <20040629235221.GF1144@green.homeunix.org>

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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:52:21 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman  
<green@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:11:51PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got a panic while doing a lot of IO on a md device.
>> I attached a gdb backtrace of the kernelcore and a dmesg output.
>>
>> It happened while untarring a 30 MB tar on the background (&) and
>> traversing this new directory in the meantime.
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD guido.thuis.klop.ws 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #1: Fri Jun  
>> 25
>> 04:03:35 CEST 2004
>> root@guido.thuis.klop.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GUIDO  i386
>>
>> On the same time I was playing music with mpg123, but that doesn't make
>> use of the md device.
>>
>> I have had this more and always while doing a lot of IO on the md  
>> device.
>>
>> Is there more info you need?
>
> It looks like there is a memory leak -- in general, you are not supposed
> to run out of kernel virtual memory address space unless you have a
> dire misconfiguration somewhere.
>
> Unfortunately, I think the most useful pieces of information (zone and
> malloc allocation) are not fetchable via kvm anymore.  Here's a fix for
> vmstat so that you can provide vmstat -m output using the -M and -N
> args again.  I think vmstat -c output would also be useful.

Thanks, I solved it. See my other thread about kmem_malloc.
I thought that was about another error, so I opened a new thread.

Greetings,

Ronald.

-- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands



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