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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:00:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sergey Gershtein <sg@ur.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Strange lock-ups during backup over nfs after adding 1024M RAM
Message-ID:  <20020123125856.C56623-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <182699938898.20020123133249@ur.ru>

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Sergey Gershtein wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 you wrote:
> DW> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Doug White wrote:
>
> DW> Try rebuilding your kernel with
> DW>
> DW> maxusers 256
> DW>
> DW> You may need to scale up the tables in the system to handle the additional
> DW> memory.
>
> It's already set to 512, is it too high?  We did not rebuild the
> kernel after adding memory, it worked fine with maxusers 512 and
> 1024M RAM.

Yes. You've scaled the tables so large that when you double the RAM, the
page tables + maxusers 512 tables > KVM.

Also, there are problems going from 1GB to 2GB on early 4.4-STABLE ...
when did you build last?

> maxusers    512

Drop this to 128, definitely.  If you're doing a lot of network, monitor
your mbuf usage and override that if necessary.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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