2.3 and FreeBSD

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, N wrote:

> Quoth Marc Fournier:
> 
> >> Not doing anything anymore... 3.2-STABLE from just over a month ago.
> >> Marc, did you ever find a solution to the problem?  IIRC you saw exactly
> >> the same symptoms. (This time it's a dual PII-400 with 768 MB.)
> > After extensive debugging with Matt Dillon, it turns out that pre-4.0
> > kernels have a VM fragmentation bug that appears to be the major cause of
> > my problem, and which is something that is going to seriously impact
> > *anyone* running FreeBSD pre-4.0 kernels...
> 
> Ok... I'll contact Matt Dillon then for the exact revisions (looking at
> the mailing lists, -current is seriously unstable at the moment,
> unfortunately).

What revisions?  There were no changes made to 3.2-STABLE to fix this
problem...the changes to 4.0 are so dramatic that they aren't able to be
back-ports :(

> (Do we have the same versions of vmstat?)
> 
> Memory statistics by type                          Type  Kern
>         Type  InUse MemUse HighUse  Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s)
> [..]
>     VM pgdata   150    23K     23K 40960K      158    0     0  128,256,512
> 
> This is after the hang, of course... Did you have any luck tinkering with
> PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, by the way?

Ah, okay, looks like you problem might be different then ours then...what
is PMP_SHGGPERPROC?  bear in mind that any/everything i did towards fixing
this problem is derived from recommendations made by Matt...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org