re: pegasosII hung with new kernel - page daemon spinning

2012-09-22 Thread matthew green
with some help from chuq@ we've narrowed this down to the kmem_arena being under 10% empty: db call uvm_km_va_starved_p 1 which keeps the main loop from sleeping. but why this is full and not being fixed by the page daemon isn't a mystery. .mrg.

Re: pegasosII hung with new kernel - page daemon spinning

2012-09-22 Thread Lars Heidieker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/2012 12:51 AM, matthew green wrote: with some help from chuq@ we've narrowed this down to the kmem_arena being under 10% empty: db call uvm_km_va_starved_p 1 which keeps the main loop from sleeping. but why this is full and not

re: pegasosII hung with new kernel - page daemon spinning

2012-09-22 Thread matthew green
That's interessting what size does the arena have on the system with 512mb? Probably limited by NKMEMPAGES_MAX_DEFAULT, so it might need to be larger on those. i noticed macppc already defines this to 256MB. trying that now. .mrg.

Parent device selection in kernel configuration

2012-09-22 Thread Bexley Hall
Hi, Hopefully the correct list for this question... I'm looking for some guidance in deciding criteria that affect your (i.e., *my*) decision as to which of (for example): lpt* at acpi? lpt* at isa? lpt* at pnpbios? to use in a particular (5.1.2/i386, in this case) kernel config