Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-05-17 Thread Patrick Kelsey
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: hi, Hm, should we be upping this limit automatically? Can we get cpu counts or memory amount early enough in boot to have a hope of auto-tuning? 64 seems low, 1024 seems high as a default. :) What is it that's

Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-05-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
hi, Hm, should we be upping this limit automatically? Can we get cpu counts or memory amount early enough in boot to have a hope of auto-tuning? 64 seems low, 1024 seems high as a default. :) -adrian On 24 March 2015 at 13:00, Keith White kwh...@site.uottawa.ca wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2015,

Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-03-24 Thread kwhite
On Mar 19, 2015, at 07:34, Keith White kwh...@site.uottawa.ca wrote: I tried the suggestion Increase vm.boot_pages but am unsure how much. I tried doubling to 128, and even excessive(?) values like 102400; but got the same panic. How are you trying to change the value? Can you build a

Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-03-24 Thread Rui Paulo
On Mar 24, 2015, at 04:19, kwh...@site.uottawa.ca wrote: I'm using /boot/loader.conf. Is there another place I should be doing this? No, that's correct, but apparently there's a problem: the RDTUN sysctl is not picked up early enough. Can you try this patch? I haven't really tested it. :-)

Re: panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-03-24 Thread Keith White
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Rui Paulo wrote: On Mar 24, 2015, at 04:19, kwh...@site.uottawa.ca wrote: I'm using /boot/loader.conf. Is there another place I should be doing this? No, that's correct, but apparently there's a problem: the RDTUN sysctl is not picked up early enough. Can you try this

panic: UMA: Increase vm.boot_pages on Dell R920 r279210

2015-03-19 Thread Keith White
I (temporarily) have a Dell R920 with 1T RAM, and 4 CPUs with 15 cores. I get a kernel panic when attempting to boot FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150223-r279210-memstick.img: ... Dell System PowerEdge R920 www.dell.com ... Four 2.30 GHz Fifteen-core Processors, L2/L3 Cache:3.75 MB/30 MB System