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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:20:16 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Invalid FFC node allocation algorithm (Was: maxusers and random system freezes)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0212201609250.13844-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200212201102.gBKB2nLX050734@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :Hi,
> :
> :It seems that kern/32672 is not fixed yet on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE.
> :
> :System 4Gb RAM, 4x700MHz
> :
> :When the system is not using all RAM, the FFS node memory grows up to a
> :limit of 102400K which leads to a system deadlocking.
>
>     Well, there was some further work done to the vnode reclamation
>     code after the 4.5 release.  RELENG_4_5 has 1.249.2.23
>     RELENG_4_6 has 1.249.2.27.  Peter Wemm introduced a major upgrade
>     to the vnode reclamation in 1.249.2.24.
>
>     I don't think I can really go back and backport this stuff to the
>     4.5 branch.  If you upgrade to 4.6 or 4.7 and still have the problem
>     I can look into it (the differences in this particular area of code
>     between 4.6 and 4.7 are minor and it would be easy to make fixes in
>     both branches).
>
> 						-Matt

So, at least a possible cause of the server halts seems to have been
cleared. As for now, we'll see if this server can be saved from the
block-outs by periodically checking the freevnodes value and running a
ram-consuming program to free vnodes if this value is getting too low. Or
eventually upgrading to a new version.

Thank you for the answer

----
Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax)




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