On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:12:44PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > It is necessary to increase KSTACK_PAGES (e.g. to 4) on machines with > certain patterns of heavy disk write load to avoid double faults in > the softupdates code (softupdates has potentially unbounded call stack > and can overflow the default kernel stack size without too much > effort).
Can these 'certain patterns' be characterized? I've got a system that hangs on haavy rsync usage, where the file sizes can me measured in a half-gig or more... > This would cause panics though, not freezes. I can't tell remotely if all of my hangs are panics, as it's a remote box. Once, on the console of a hung box, I found panic: worklist_remove: not on list This box did not reboot of it's own accord, and has wedged again under a similar workload... > Kris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
