Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:44:06 -0400 From: Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM exhaustion and kernel hangs Message-ID: <20010821144406.A2733@nomad.lets.net> In-Reply-To: <200108211820.f7LIKZf65278@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:20:35AM -0700 References: <20010821115724.A2562@nomad.lets.net> <200108211820.f7LIKZf65278@earth.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:20:35AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > Yes, we believe that problem has been fixed. It probably isn't in > the -SECURITY release. I would recommend that you play around with the > latest -stable on one workstation and see if that solves your problem. For a few good reasons I would like to stick with 4.3-SECURITY, and avoid upgrading to 4.4. In order to develop a kernel patch is it good enough to look at the functions killproc() (in sys/kern/kern_sig.c) and code in vm_pageout.c (in sys/vm), or will there be issues with other parts of the kernel. Or what files should I diff? > > You might also want to try to figure out what is eating up the memory > (or, more specifically, dirtying memory since clean file-backed pages > would not lead to this situation). > Can this situation be created if a web server is serving pages that are being modified by another process, if they are both accessing the fs over NFS? thanx - steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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