Subject: Re: Machine livelock with latest (4.99.48) kernel on sparc64
To: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2008 19:15:19
Tobias Nygren wrote:
> I can reproduce this, with a LOCKDEBUG kernel. I don't have any swap
> enabled so instead of death by vm thrashing I get killed processes.
> I guess this could be a problem with the sparc64 atomic ops, since
> the uvmexp accounting doesn't add up.
That would make sense; if you look back at my top output in the original
email (or the earlier followups), you'll notice that the memory usage
doesn't add up -- there's almost nothing used for the file cache and yet
no memory free.
--rafal