I'm seeing different responses depending on hardware.

On regular Pentium 166 machines, I almost NEVER get
a panic.  On brand-new Pentium II 350s, I get a panic
every 6-9 hours.  This happens when both kernels are
configured the same for maxusers.  It happens when
both machines are under the same load level -- the
P5 stays rock solid, the P6 flakes out.

What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs
is partly at fault?


-Troy Cobb
 Circle Net, Inc.
 http://www.circle.net

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Brian Feldman [mailto:gr...@unixhelp.org]
>   Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:48 AM
>   To: Matthew Dillon
>   Cc: Khetan Gajjar; curr...@freebsd.org
>   Subject: Re: Problems in VM structure ?
>   
>   
>   On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>   
>   > :maxusers 256
>   > 
>   >     Try reducing maxusers to 128.  Another person 
>   reported similar behavior
>   >     to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back 
>   to a basic 
>   >     distribution -- and everything started working again.
>   > 
>   >     It turned out that a maxusers value of 256 and 512 
>   were causing his machine
>   >     to go poof, but a maxusers value of 128 worked fine.
>   > 
>   >     I haven't tracked the problem down yet.  Please try 
>   reducing your maxusers
>   >     to 128 and email the results to current.
>   
>   For what it's worth, my maxusers is 250 and my system is 
>   quite stable, even
>   during a make -j25 buildworld.
>   
>   > 
>   >                                               -Matt
>   > 
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