Re: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed with vm.kmem_size=1536M

2009-03-01 Thread Pete French
I'm running 7-STABLE as of Feb 26 or so. Commit r187466 on Jan 20 bumped up kmem_size_max on amd64 to 3.6GB: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revisionrevision=187466 M now I am wworried about upgrading to STABLE! ;) I can't think of a reason why I am seeing what I am seeing -

vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed with vm.kmem_size=1536M

2009-02-28 Thread Pete French
So, I have a farm of machines runnign 7.1/amd64, all of which have 16 gig of memory in them. This afternoon, as an experiment, I altered loader.conf to have these two lines in it: vm.kmem_size=1536M vm.kmem_size_max=1536M This is what I do on machines running ZFS - these machines are not,

Re: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed with vm.kmem_size=1536M

2009-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 28), Pete French said: So, I have a farm of machines runnign 7.1/amd64, all of which have 16 gig of memory in them. This afternoon, as an experiment, I altered loader.conf to have these two lines in it: vm.kmem_size=1536M vm.kmem_size_max=1536M This is what I do

Re: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed with vm.kmem_size=1536M

2009-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 01), Pete French said: You've probably reduced kmem_size from the default. I don't set anything on my 6 GB amd64 system, and I get: $ sysctl vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vm.kmem_size: 2061496320 vm.kmem_size_max: 3865468109 I assume your 16GB system would