Is there any way to increase the KVM?

2008-05-30 Thread Tz-Huan Huang
Hi, Our nfs server is running 7-stable/amd64 with 8G ram, the size of zfs pool is 12T. We have set vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max to 1.5G, but the kernel still panics by "kmem_map too small" often. According to [1], the limitation is not only by the loader (is it fixed now?) but also by the def

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> In certain conditions, even though the Firmware RAID BIOS, says that a >> RAID is degraded, the FreeBSD driver thinks it's business as usual. In >> my case this resulted in file system corruption. Relevant output below. > > See the "ATA (SATA, PATA, ATAPI)" section, speci

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 30 May 2008 05:03:48 pm Stef Walter wrote: > This isn't a bug report, just a heads up to anyone using the same setup. > This occurred in production, and I don't currently have a non-production > hardware on which to investigate this bug and/or create a patch. > > In certain conditions, e

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:03:48PM +, Stef Walter wrote: > This isn't a bug report, just a heads up to anyone using the same setup. > This occurred in production, and I don't currently have a non-production > hardware on which to investigate this bug and/or create a patch. > > In certain condi

RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
This isn't a bug report, just a heads up to anyone using the same setup. This occurred in production, and I don't currently have a non-production hardware on which to investigate this bug and/or create a patch. In certain conditions, even though the Firmware RAID BIOS, says that a RAID is degraded

CFT: adding configuration file support to pkg_install

2008-05-30 Thread Florent Thoumie
This adds support for /etc/pkg.conf configuration file. Also, this adds support for naive multi-site package fetching. Any comment welcome (and appreciated). Patch is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-config.diff Tarball is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/po

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dinesh Nair wrote: > for those of us who're booting off a stripped down freebsd and are not > using the 4th routines, are the above to be set before 'load /kernel' or > after 'load /kernel' ? It doesn't matter. The tunables are passed to the kernel when it is booted. In fact, the standard bea

Pahole on freebsd

2008-05-30 Thread vasanth raonaik
Hello Hackers, I have searched online to find the pahole utility for freebsd. Do we have a pahole utility for freebsd? If yes, can some one point me to the correct location from where i can download. Thanks, Vasanth ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mail

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:58:14PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and > > reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 > > boxes: > > > > # Increase maxi

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and > reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 > boxes: > > # Increase maximum allocatable memory on a process to 2GB. > # (We don't choose 3GB (our