From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 06:50:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3A516A41C for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 06:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.snsonline.net (office-fw.iexec.net.au [210.18.210.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DFB43D1F for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 06:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.snsonline.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D62123BCB; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:50:08 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200505310647.j4V6l6F3010478@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200505310647.j4V6l6F3010478@drugs.dv.isc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <37C168CE-2045-4C1C-BBF3-ABF70E9C84CE@snsonline.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mark Sergeant Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:50:06 +1000 To: Mark Andrews X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Michael Riexinger Subject: Re: heavy named problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 06:50:15 -0000 >>>> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: /usr/src/lib/bind/ >>>> dns/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/dns/adb.c:1439: unexpected error: >>>> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: isc_mutex_init failed in >>>> new_adbfind() >>>> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.891 general: error: /usr/src/lib/bind/ >>>> dns/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/dns/adb.c:1439: unexpected error: >>>> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.891 general: error: /usr/src/lib/bind/ >>>> dns/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/dns/adb.c:1439: unexpected error: >>>> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.891 general: error: isc_mutex_init failed in >>>> new_adbfind() >>>> >>>> I'm seeing this on both FreeBSD 5.4-p1 and -STABLE, either named >>>> will >>>> hang around the 100 - 250M memory mark with top output like ... >>>> >>>> last pid: 20483; load averages: 0.98, 0.67, >>>> 0.44 up 4+03:26:18 >>>> 12:32:27 >>>> 34 processes: 2 running, 32 sleeping >>>> CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % >>>> interrupt, % idle >>>> Mem: 237M Active, 150M Inact, 119M Wired, 24K Cache, 214M Buf, >>>> 1407M >>>> Free >>>> Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free >>>> >>>> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME >>>> WCPU CPU >>>> COMMAND >>>> 19847 bind 20 0 232M 228M kserel 1 61:57 98.97% >>>> 98.97% named >>>> >>>> As you can see plenty of memory free. >>>> >>>> >>>> Or if I drop down the datasize and cache size then I get the above >>>> crash. Any ideas anyone ? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> The only thing you should do with datasize is raise it. >>> The option is there so that the process can get *more* than >>> the default memory allocation. >>> >>> If you want to restict the amount of memory being used then >>> max-cache-size is what should be set. Note for this to be >>> effective it needs to trigger *before* named's memory usage >>> hits the datasize limit. >>> >>> Lowering both datasize and max-cache-size is generally >>> counter productive. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >> >> True, but with none in place (I'd like it to use a gig or so if >> possible for the cache), then the system "freezes" and needs to be >> kill -9'ed and restarted, hence why I dropped the memory limits / put >> them in place in the first place. Ideally I'd like this machine to >> not crash at all since it's the primary cache. Have I run into some >> obscure bug ? >> > > Well FreeBSD defaults to a system wide maximum datasize of > 512M (MAXDSIZ) and requires the kernel to be tuned to raise. > options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)" options DFLDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)" Already got them in the kernel. Still got issues though. Mark