Re: 7-BETA3 everyday reboot (was: BETA3 crash)

On Nov 30, 2007 9:48 AM, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn_at_freenet.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:47:51 -0300
> "Alexandre Biancalana" <biancalana_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After the reboot, the kernel running have the patch suggested by
> > ivoras_at_ (http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/vm_kern.c.2.patch),
> > but how the patch is related to "kmem_map too small", I don't think
> > that will be usefull with this panic.
> >
> > I *really* need some solution :(
> >
> >  Any ideas ?
> >
>
> The patch is potentially useful because the new code tries harder to
> reclaim pages (8 times instead of once with a sleep in between the
> attempts).
>
> The idea is that pages may become available at some time during one
> of the sleeps.
>
> Just try it and see whether it helps. Can't do any harm.

After apply the patch the machine survives to 3 days of work, but
paniced again after the system start using swap because some
applications were using more memory, here is the panic message:

Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry,
addr: fffffffff7a3e000
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: cpuid = 0
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Uptime: 3d5h5m25s
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Physical memory: 3061 MB
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Dumping 1788 MB: 1773 1757 1741 1725
1709 1693 1677 1661 1645 1629 1613 1597 1581 1565 1549 1533 1517 1501
1485 1469 1453 1437 1421 1405 138
9 1373 1357 1341 1325 1309 1293 1277 1261 1245 1229 1213 1197 1181
1165 1149 1133 1117 1101 1085 1069 1053 1037 1021 1005 989 973 957 941
925 909 893 877 861 845 829 813
797 781 765 749 733 717 701 685 669 653 637 621 605 589 573 557 541
525 509 493 477 461 445 429 413 397 381 365 349 333 317 301 285 269
253 237 221 205 189 173 157 141 12
5 109 93 77 61 45 29 13
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Dump complete
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a
key on the console to abort
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: Rebooting...
Dec  4 03:12:33 Manny kernel: cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs

Any other ideas ?!

With Best Regards,

Alexandre