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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 22:42:16 +0200
From:      "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
To:        "FreeBSD-STABLE" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Unstable stable-release?
Message-ID:  <000c01c0ea12$30358a60$0304a8c0@smalweer.nl>
References:  <000701c0ea10$671e7700$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> <20010531133830.M23522@johncoop>

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Thanks, will try that ( if i can compile the kernel before it panics that
is..)

Tomorrow I swap memory hardware, and maybe go back to 4.3-release to
isolate the problem...

Ron.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Merryweather Cooper" <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Unstable stable-release?


> On 2001.05.31 13:29 Ron Klinkien wrote:
> >
> > For the last few days my server is very unstable,
> > it panics mostly when compiling kernel and/or world.
> >
> > I had also an fxp0 intel card added, but after reading about
> > miibus problems, changed it to an xl0 type, it made no difference.
> >
> > I cvsupped/rebuild today (31 may)
> >
> > The last one is:
> >
> > savecore -N /kernel /var/crash
> > savecore: reboot after panic: vm_page_insert: already inserted
> > savecore: system went down at Thu May 31 22:10:20 2001
> > savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device (227514 available,
> > need
> > 297068)
> >
> > As you can see, I have to create some space before I can give more
> > details...
> >
> > In the meantime can anyone give a pointer where to look?
> > Still hardware or am I not the only one?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron.
> >
>
> I'm definitely no kernel expert, but in the past week or so I've had
> crashes updating/building ports with recent kernels.  As an ad hoc
> solution (no guarantee it either:  1) points to the actual problem; or
> 2) really works), I've increased the size of PMAP_SHPGPERPROC (which
> appears to default to 200).  This seems to have made the vm_page-related
> panics disappear, and also greatly improved the responsiveness of
> mozilla-0.9,1.  But, most definitely, YMMV . . .
>
> jmc
>
>
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