Re: Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator
From: Stephane E. Potvin (sepotvin_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 06/17/05
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:50:06 -0400 To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
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>>> Interestingly, there's been a bunch of reports of this in the past
>>> few days, and there weren't immediately after the malloc commit. I
>>> wonder if some other recent change has increased the amount of UMA
>>> memory allocated early in the boot, increasing the level of reports...
>>
>>
>> Increase UMA_BOOT_PAGES to prevent a crash during initialization. See
>> http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42AD8270.8060906 for a detailed
>> description of the crash.
>
>
> Yeah, this is the fix, but I guess I'm wondering what caused a recent
> spate of problem reports -- was it a delayed response to the malloc
> change as people gradually upgraded, or some other recent kernel change
> that caused increase demand for memory.
Well, I had this problem since the day of the commit. I didn't had time to
investigate what was happening so I just reverted to an older known
working kernel. It might be a peculiarity of my setup that caused it to
fail earlier though.
Steph
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