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

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