From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 16 9:12:58 1999 Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA11414 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 23439 invoked from network); 16 Feb 1999 15:23:32 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 16 Feb 1999 15:23:32 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA01561; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:23:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902161523.KAA01561@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Problems in VM structure ? In-Reply-To: <199902160819.AAA22168@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Feb 16, 99 00:19:07 am" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:23:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon said: > :maxusers 256 > > Try reducing maxusers to 128. Another person reported similar behavior > to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back to a basic > distribution -- and everything started working again. > > It turned out that a maxusers value of 256 and 512 were causing his machine > to go poof, but a maxusers value of 128 worked fine. > > I haven't tracked the problem down yet. Please try reducing your maxusers > to 128 and email the results to current. > Likely because data structures are getting too big. The kernel is limited to (I forget) how big in VA space. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message