Re: "witness exhausted"

Hello Rene, Robert!

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:52:18PM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> > 
> > 	I updated to 
> > 
> >  FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Aug 20 15:02:58 EDT 2004
> > 
> > 	and noticed in the boot messages:
> > 
> > witness_get: witness exhausted
> > 
> > 	What's going on, and is this something I need to worry about?
> > 	(System config file and dmesg output are appended.)
> > 
> > 
> > 			Robert Huff
> 
> "Me too". This is on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 #0: Sun Aug 22 09:50:24 CEST 2004
> It appears just after IPsec inited.
> 
> The message comes from sys/kern/subr_witness.c (rev 1.178)

Although I have not seen it lately, this message is an old acquintance:
I remember it from the days before 5.0 was out. It means that the
witness subsystem has reached its capacity and my experience at least at
that time was that from this point on, witness checking was essentially
disabled (you could literally feel this, because the interactive
performance of the machine went right through the roof in a minute! :-)
and stayed that way until the next reboot. Upon the introduction of the
WITNESS_SKIPSPIN option I no longer encountered this message on my
systems.

So, nothing to worry about in my opinion...

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Budapest
Hungary