kernel deadlock

Don Bowman don at sandvine.com
Tue Jul 29 15:23:10 PDT 2003


From: Robert Watson [mailto:rwatson at freebsd.org]
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Dave Dolson wrote:
> 
> > To follow up, I've discovered that the system has exhausted its "FFS
> > node" malloc type. 
 ...
> 
> Some problems with this have turned up in -CURRENT on large-memory
> machines where some of the scaling factors have been off.  In 

We currently have kern.maxvnodes=70354 set (automatically scaled). This
is a 1GB box.

I will try re-running the test with less.

when it hits kern.maxvnodes, what will it do?

--don


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