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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:32:07 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboots with 2.2.1-R 
Message-ID:  <199710150232.TAA02918@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:24:30 %2B1100." <3.0.32.19971015112430.006efb3c@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> 

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>we are having spontaneous reboot problems with our second squid proxy
>server since performing a hardware upgrade last weekend.  The machine is
>running 2.2.1-R and has been without fault since it was installed a few
>months ago.  The specs are as follows:
>
>P200
>192MB RAM
>SOYO SY-5BT5 motherboard
>Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller
>1x2GB Seagate SCSI HDD
>3x4GB Seagate SCSI HDD (in a ccd)
>
>The upgrade involved adding 64MB RAM and one of the 4GB disks.  In addition
>to this we changed the squid cache from individual 4GB filesystems to a
>striped (ccd) 12GB filesystem.
>
>Could this be a manifestation of the ahc driver bug and if so, can I just
>patch the 2.2.1 kernel with the new ahc driver files rather than doing an
>upgrade?
>
>If I can patch the kernel, which files do I need to get?

   This might be caused by a scalability bug in sys/i386/i386/pmap.c. If you
could get the changes in rev 1.128.2.5 of pmap.c, this might fix it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

Index: pmap.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c,v
retrieving revision 1.128.2.4
retrieving revision 1.128.2.5
diff -c -r1.128.2.4 -r1.128.2.5
*** pmap.c	1997/02/01 12:11:03	1.128.2.4
--- pmap.c	1997/04/23 02:20:06	1.128.2.5
***************
*** 39,45 ****
   * SUCH DAMAGE.
   *
   *	from:	@(#)pmap.c	7.7 (Berkeley)	5/12/91
!  *	$Id: pmap.c,v 1.128.2.4 1997/02/01 12:11:03 davidg Exp $
   */
  
  /*
--- 39,45 ----
   * SUCH DAMAGE.
   *
   *	from:	@(#)pmap.c	7.7 (Berkeley)	5/12/91
!  *	$Id: pmap.c,v 1.128.2.5 1997/04/23 02:20:06 davidg Exp $
   */
  
  /*
***************
*** 100,105 ****
--- 100,106 ----
  #include <machine/specialreg.h>
  
  #define PMAP_KEEP_PDIRS
+ #define PMAP_SHPGPERPROC 200
  
  #if defined(DIAGNOSTIC)
  #define PMAP_DIAGNOSTIC
***************
*** 1460,1476 ****
  /*
   * init the pv_entry allocation system
   */
- #define PVSPERPAGE 64
  void
  init_pv_entries(npg)
  	int npg;
  {
  	/*
! 	 * allocate enough kvm space for PVSPERPAGE entries per page (lots)
! 	 * kvm space is fairly cheap, be generous!!!  (the system can panic if
! 	 * this is too small.)
  	 */
! 	npvvapg = ((npg * PVSPERPAGE) * sizeof(struct pv_entry)
  		+ PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
  	pvva = kmem_alloc_pageable(kernel_map, npvvapg * PAGE_SIZE);
  	/*
--- 1461,1482 ----
  /*
   * init the pv_entry allocation system
   */
  void
  init_pv_entries(npg)
  	int npg;
  {
  	/*
! 	 * Allocate enough kvm space for one entry per page, and
! 	 * each process having PMAP_SHPGPERPROC pages shared with other
! 	 * processes.  (The system can panic if this is too small, but also
! 	 * can fail on bootup if this is too big.)
! 	 * XXX The pv management mechanism needs to be fixed so that systems
! 	 * with lots of shared mappings amongst lots of processes will still
! 	 * work.  The fix will likely be that once we run out of pv entries
! 	 * we will free other entries (and the associated mappings), with
! 	 * some policy yet to be determined.
  	 */
! 	npvvapg = ((PMAP_SHPGPERPROC * maxproc + npg) * sizeof(struct pv_entry)
  		+ PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
  	pvva = kmem_alloc_pageable(kernel_map, npvvapg * PAGE_SIZE);
  	/*



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