Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 17 19:33:25 GMT 2005


On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>Interestingly, there's been a bunch of reports of this in the past few 
> >>days, and there weren't immediately after the malloc commit.  I wonder if 
> >>some other recent change has increased the amount of UMA memory allocated 
> >>early in the boot, increasing the level of reports...
> >
> > Increase UMA_BOOT_PAGES to prevent a crash during initialization.  See
> > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42AD8270.8060906 for a detailed
> > description of the crash.
> 
> Yeah, this is the fix, but I guess I'm wondering what caused a recent 
> spate of problem reports -- was it a delayed response to the malloc change 
> as people gradually upgraded, or some other recent kernel change that 
> caused increase demand for memory.

The sys/dev/atkbdc commit is what pushed me over the limit, not the
malloc changes.  I am loading 15 modules.

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