I recently ran into an issue with my OpenBSD mail server where it would
die every day around 5 AM. With 5.7-stable it would just become
unresponsive, with 5.8-stable it would print "scsi_xfer pool exhausted"
repeatedly on the console. It turned out to be SpamAsssassin sa-learn
running on a folder with 26k+ messages, and I simply ran out of memory
and swap.
I would have preferred to have the sa-learn process just crash instead
of bringing the system down. I don't know that I necessarily want to
put a specific memory limit on the process, I just don't want a process
to be able to crowd out the kernel. Is there a sane way to do so?
Dmesg is below. It's a kvm guest, if that's relevant. Thanks for reading.
OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Nov 10 11:57:58 CET 2015
jas...@stable-58-amd64.mtier.org:/binpatchng/work-binpatch58-amd64/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 1056952320 (1007MB)
avail mem = 1021083648 (973MB)
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0x3ffffe40 (13 entries)
bios0: vendor Seabios version "0.5.1" date 01/01/2007
bios0: Red Hat KVM
acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
acpi0: sleep states S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT APIC SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6), 2600.34 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,HV,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu0: DTLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges
cpu0: apic clock running at 1000MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6), 2600.00 MHz
cpu1:
FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,HV,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu1: ITLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu1: DTLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu1: smt 0, core 0, package 1
cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor)
cpu2: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6), 2600.04 MHz
cpu2:
FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,HV,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu2: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu2: ITLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu2: DTLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu2: smt 0, core 0, package 2
cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor)
cpu3: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6), 2600.04 MHz
cpu3:
FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16,HV,NXE,LONG,LAHF
cpu3: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu3: ITLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu3: DTLB 255 4KB entries direct-mapped, 255 4MB entries direct-mapped
cpu3: smt 0, core 0, package 3
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!)
acpicpu1 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!)
acpicpu2 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!)
acpicpu3 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!)
pvbus0 at mainbus0: KVM
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82441FX" rev 0x02
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82371SB ISA" rev 0x00
pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel 82371SB IDE" rev 0x00: DMA,
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <QEMU, QEMU DVD-ROM, 0.12> ATAPI 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 0
uhci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "Intel 82371SB USB" rev 0x01: apic 0 int 11
piixpm0 at pci0 dev 1 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x03: apic 0
int 9
iic0 at piixpm0
iic0: addr 0x18 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
iic0: addr 0x1a 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
iic0: addr 0x29 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
iic0: addr 0x2b 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
iic0: addr 0x4c 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
iic0: addr 0x4e 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00
words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0000 03=0000 04=0000 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446" rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
virtio0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Network" rev 0x00:
Virtio Network Device
vio0 at virtio0: address 00:16:3c:4c:8b:02
virtio0: apic 0 int 11
virtio1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Storage" rev 0x00:
Virtio Block Device
vioblk0 at virtio1
scsibus2 at vioblk0: 2 targets
sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <VirtIO, Block Device, > SCSI3 0/direct fixed
sd0: 92160MB, 512 bytes/sector, 188743680 sectors
virtio1: apic 0 int 11
virtio2 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Memory" rev 0x00:
Virtio Memory Balloon Device
viomb0 at virtio2
virtio2: apic 0 int 10
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: density unknown
fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
nvram: invalid checksum
uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "QEMU 0.12.1 QEMU
USB Tablet" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2
uhidev0: iclass 3/0
ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir
wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0
vscsi0 at root
scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on sd0a (8ca679cccb869dba.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
clock: unknown CMOS layout
