> On 7 Apr 2015, at 6:38 pm, Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> yes, there are next changes in sysctl.conf, but kernel options were
> untouched (again it was GENERIC.MP -stable).
> 
> $ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
> net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
> net.inet.carp.preempt=1
> net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
> kern.maxfiles=5048026
> kern.maxclusters=2000000

why did you raise those last two values?

dlg

ps. that last one is the cause of your panics.

> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:37 AM, David Gwynne <da...@gwynne.id.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6 Apr 2015, at 05:32, Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Mark, I will dig in to this.
>>> 
>>> Sorry, but can someone give a hint what are "unusual" values for pools
>>> there which can be related to kernel panic Iv'e reported at the very
>>> beginning?
>>> 
>>> Current  vmstat -m output is:
>> 
>> the abbreviated version below is kind of interesting.
>> 
>> are you setting the kern.maxclusters sysctl? if so, to what value?
>> 
>>> 
>>> Memory Totals:  In Use    Free    Requests
>>>               76695K    862K    24831415
>>> Memory resource pool statistics
>>> Name        Size Requests Fail    InUse Pgreq Pgrel Npage Hiwat Minpg Maxpg 
>>> Idle
>>> mbpl         256 2741641011  0      346  4789     0     0  4789     1
>>> 125000 4767
>>> mcl2k       2048 1108887843  0      183 10052     0     0 10052     4
>>> 1000000 9959
>>> 
>>> In use 210238K, total allocated 0K; utilization inf%
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Will update if will find something...
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 18:44:43 +0200
>>>>> From: Evgeniy Sudyr <eject.in...@gmail.com>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Stuart,
>>>>> 
>>>>> as part of troubleshooting, BIOS was upgraded from R 3.0 to latest R 3.2
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRW-F.cfm 
>>>>> X9SRW5.115
>>>>> 
>>>>> How big chances are it hitted bug which was fixed in latest BIOS
>>>>> relase and this will not occurs again? Did you noticed something we
>>>>> can check with Supermicro support to make sure?
>>>> 
>>>> So far I've not seen any real evidence that the BIOS is causing
>>>> problems.  Ted noticed the higher-than-usual ACPI memory usage,
>>>> suggesting a memory leak.  This made Stuart suggest that it might be
>>>> worth updating your BIOS.  But we haven't actually established that
>>>> there is indeed a memory leak.  In fact the information you posted
>>>> earlier suggests that there is no ACPI memory leak, or at least not
>>>> one directly related to executing AML.
>>>> 
>>>> You'll really need to do some digging yourself here.  Look at the
>>>> vmstat -m output immediately after booting your machine.  Then keep
>>>> looking at it periodically and identify the memory types and pools
>>>> that keep growing.  For malloc'ed memory look at the "MemUse" column
>>>> under "Memory statistics by type".  For pools, look at the "InUse"
>>>> column under "Memory resource pool statistics".
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> --
>>> With regards,
>>> Eugene Sudyr
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --
> With regards,
> Eugene Sudyr


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