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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:24:13 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        mki@mozone.net
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.5-RELEASE panic in getnewvnode()
Message-ID:  <20020410192413.D7095@nexus.root.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020410174447.B18337@cyclonus.mozone.net>; from mki@mozone.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:44:47PM -0700
References:  <20020410170103.A18337@cyclonus.mozone.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020410202016.0549f008@192.168.0.12> <20020410174447.B18337@cyclonus.mozone.net>

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>On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> At 05:01 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, mki@mozone.net wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >We're running 4.5-RELEASE, and can reproduce the following panic by simply
>> >doing a find / ; both with softupdates on or off.  It generally seems to
>> >crash within /usr/ports.
>> 
>> Did you try this out on a STABLE box ? I tried it both on a UP and SMP 
>> stable box (find / ;) and it made it through everything.
> 
>It appears that it's related to the fact that I was setting nmbclusters
>to 64000 during boot, when we reduced this to 60000, the problem was 
>addressed.
>
>I wonder if raising the kva space would address this (ie be able to
>have that high (or even higher) nmbclusters) while not causing the
>machine to panic when it's doing things like a find.

   Based on what you've said, I would yes, that running out of KVA space is
the cause of the problem and is easily fixed by increasing it.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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