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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:44:37 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: panic: vm_fault_copy_wired: page missing 
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> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:54:19PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > Take NFS out of the picture if you can...
> > > >=20
> > > I've been thinking along those lines, and Kostic is convinced
> > > that the problem lies there, so I guess I'll give it a try, but
> > > it's no realy a solution.
> > 
> > Better solution is to remove mlock()/mlockall().
> 
> without binaries via NFS there is no panic.
> 
> I can't remove mlock()/mlockall() since it's not my program, it's apache 
> et.all.
> but, while my knowledge of dtrace is almost zero, I did the next best thing
> and put a printf in mlock/mlockall and they are not being called by userland.
> 
> so, it seems the problem is nfs related, calling in the heavy-weights,
> hi rick!

well, Kostic was right after all. It was am-utils that called mlockall(),
I missed the message first time, commented out the call to mlockall, and the
system is not panicking.

so there is a problem with mlock and nfs, can this be fixed? is there a pr?

anyways, thank you all!

danny






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