Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:43 -0700 From: <forum@redpuppy.net> To: forum@redpuppy.net, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC Message-ID: <20070924195216.D545713C4B2@mx1.freebsd.org>
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It looks like a process associated with Postfix is eating up all of the mem= ory=0D and crashing the system. Im trying to find out which one now.=0D =0D Thanks for you help.=0D =0D Thron=0D =0D On Mon Sep 24 9:13 , Bill Moran sent:=0D =0D >In response to forum@redpuppy.net>:=0D >=0D >> Hi,=0D >> =0D >> I have a new 6.2 install running postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAs= sassin=0D >> and over the weekend the server stopped responding with the following er= ror.=0D >> collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. I did som= e google=0D >> searching on the error and found the same problem with Apache, but none = with my=0D >> configuration. Most of the sites say to increase the PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, b= ut none=0D >> say how or what to increase it to.=0D >=0D >I've never seen a modern version of FreeBSD lock up as a result of this,= =0D >so that's a little odd.=0D >=0D >> Does anyone have a suggestion on how I should go about troubleshooting t= his or=0D >> what I should change my PMAP_SHPGPERPROC to? Could this be a one time fl= uke and I=0D >> shouldn=92t worry about it?=0D >=0D >I had to research this earlier this year. The default is 200, so in my=0D >case, raising the value to 250 solved the problem. I fixed it by adding= =0D >the setting to my kernel config and building a new kernel. I believe=0D >you can also set it in loader.conf=0D >=0D >I haven't tried setting it higher than 250 (haven't had the need) but=0D >I've seen some posts suggesting that setting it too high can cause=0D >kernel panics. I recommend bumping it to 250, then go to 300 if the=0D >problem doesn't go away -- but in any event, don't increase it=0D >drastically.=0D >=0D >-- =0D >Bill Moran=0D >http://www.potentialtech.com=0D >=0D =0D =0D
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