limit on PV entries

2012-02-01 Thread n dhert
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE From time to time, I get in /var/log/messages kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl. this started a few weeks ago, never had that before, don't have it on other FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

Re: limit on PV entries

2012-02-01 Thread Julien Cigar
Did you explicitly disabled superpages? What is the output of $ sysctl vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled ? On 02/01/2012 10:17, n dhert wrote: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE From time to time, I get in /var/log/messages kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either

Re: limit on PV entries

2012-02-01 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:17:21 +0100 n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE From time to time, I get in /var/log/messages kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl. this started a few

Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable

2009-08-25 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, We have an HP Proliant DL380G5 with 4GB of RAM and FreeBSD 7.0 which runs PostgreSQL 8.3 for more than a year now. No problems, except that two days ago I noticed those messages in my kernel logs : Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-29 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 15:44:49 Francis Dubé wrote: Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load;

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Francis Dubé wrote: Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Francis Dubé wrote: Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: Here's an example of top's output regarding our httpd process : 54326 apache1 960 156M 13108K select 1 0:00 0.15% httpd 54952 apache1 960 156M 12684K select 1 0:00 0.10% httpd 52343 apache1 40

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Francis Dubé
Chuck Swiger a écrit : On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: Here's an example of top's output regarding our httpd process : 54326 apache1 960 156M 13108K select 1 0:00 0.15% httpd 54952 apache1 960 156M 12684K select 1 0:00 0.10% httpd 52343

collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi everyone, I'm running a a webserver on FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE-p6) and I have this error in my logs : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase it ! During peaks all

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Chang
collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase it ! During

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread FreeBSD
Chuck Swiger a écrit : On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread FreeBSD
Simon Chang a écrit : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing factor. [1] If you set your MaxClients higher than that, your system will start swapping under

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing factor. [1] If you set your

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Simon Chang a écrit : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Chang
Raising PMAP_SHPGPERPROC works most of the time. You can also re-tune your Apache setting to keep processes from constantly spawning and dying. For example, set the max spare and min spare servers settings higher, so Apache keeps more spare servers around instead of spawning them on demand

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: By the way, does anyone know whether there is any way to tune PMAP_SHPGPERPROC using sysctl, or does such button/knob not exist? No. I've had this discussion with the developer who originally wrote that code. The table size is too deep inside

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I'm running a a webserver on FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE-p6) and I have this error in my logs : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/27/08, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raising PMAP_SHPGPERPROC works most of the time. You can also re-tune [...] By the way, does anyone know whether there is any way to tune PMAP_SHPGPERPROC using sysctl, or does such button/knob not exist? It is tunable with a sysctl in AMD64

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/10/08, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 583006 vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 2243305 The system: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 07:51:58 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-13 Thread Mark Tinguely
Thanks. I'll see what happens. In amd64/7.0 is there any chance running out of pv_entrys would show up as failures in interprocess communication rather than a panic? The original symptom was that certain web pages (or jailed servers, I'm not sure) were unreachable, as if the firewall

kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-10 Thread Bob Johnson
A web server with several jailed copies of Apache is having problems that seem to be caused by incorrect IPFW rules, but in the process of working on that, I find in the log the following repeated many times: Oct 8 23:29:50 spider kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-10 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Bob Johnson wrote: A web server with several jailed copies of Apache is having problems that seem to be caused by incorrect IPFW rules, but in the process of working on that, I find in the log the following repeated many times: Oct 8 23:29:50 spider kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries

Re: kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries...

2008-10-10 Thread Mark Tinguely
vm.pmap.pv_entry_count: 583006 vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 2243305 The system: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 07:51:58 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Can someone briefly explain what

PV entries

2007-12-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello questions, I'm getting these messages on my FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 as well as on BETA4 boxes (I haven't noticed it in the past): Dec 27 01:18:49 web1 kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl. I

collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2007-09-24 Thread forum
Hi, I have a new 6.2 install running postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAssassin and over the weekend the server stopped responding with the following error. collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. I did some google searching on the error and found the same problem

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a new 6.2 install running postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAssassin and over the weekend the server stopped responding with the following error. collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. I did some google searching

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2007-09-24 Thread forum
, amavisd-new, clamav and SpamAssassin and over the weekend the server stopped responding with the following error. collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. I did some google searching on the error and found the same problem with Apache, but none with my configuration

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
/MYKNL Panic String: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc Dump Parity: 2383301964 Bounds: 49 Dump Status: good” I had searched in google, but I didn’t know how to do. You _should_ be able to raise the vm.pmap.shpgperproc sysctl to prevent the problem

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-21 Thread peter
) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jan 17 16:39:08 2007 Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 25 15:07:33 CST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKNL Panic String: no pv entries: increase

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Wed Jan 17 16:39:08 2007 Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 25 15:07:33 CST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKNL Panic String: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
Panic String: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc Dump Parity: 2383301964 Bounds: 49 Dump Status: good” I had searched in google, but I didn’t know how to do. You _should_ be able to raise the vm.pmap.shpgperproc sysctl to prevent the problem -- but there doesn't seem

no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-18 Thread peter
Hostname: myhost.mydomain.com Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 25 15:07:33 CST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKNL Panic String: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc Dump Parity: 2383301964 Bounds: 49 Dump Status: good

Apache PV entries

2006-01-19 Thread M. L.
Hello list, I am configuring a very heavily used apache webserver, that required some special needs. This particular configuration needs to have at least 1024 httpds always running. Reaching this number is not a problem, but whenever I stop apache via apachectl stop, I notice all the httpds

collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2005-06-16 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
Hi, I just got this on one of our machines It talks about Apache being the issue, but when I run the ipcs -a ; sysctl vm.zone | grep PV I get : odin# ipcs -a ; sysctl vm.zone | grep PV Message Queues: T ID KEYMODE OWNERGROUP CREATOR CGROUP CBYTES QNUM

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2003-08-14 Thread Markie
- From: admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC FreeBSD 4.8 Stable Hi there, I am seeing the following log entry in my /var/log/messages any clue what I can do to cure

collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2003-08-14 Thread admin
FreeBSD 4.8 Stable Hi there, I am seeing the following log entry in my /var/log/messages any clue what I can do to cure this issue? snip Aug 12 03:00:55 /kernel: pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC - snip - noah

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2003-08-14 Thread admin
Markie - Original Message - From: admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC FreeBSD 4.8 Stable Hi there, I am seeing the following log entry in my /var/log