Re: kern/38927: processes getting stuck in uvm_map (cv_timedwait), hanging machine

[Geoff Wing <gcw%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38927; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Geoff Wing <gcw%pobox.com@localhost>
To: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38927: processes getting stuck in uvm_map (cv_timedwait),
        hanging machine
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:18:56 +1000

 On Wednesday 2008-06-11 11:49 +0100, Andrew Doran output:
 :On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:35PM +1000, Geoff Wing wrote:
 :>   nentries = 3220, 
 :>   size = 999698432, 
 :>   ref_count = 1, 
 :It looks like something has exhausted the virtual address space available
 :to the kernel (1GB). What is the machine doing?
 
 sh /etc/security
 
 It's doing a "find" for setuid/gid files.
 
 If this is relevant, I have kern.maxvnodes=1048576
 and "pstat -T" shows it make vnode use to around 532686
 
 Also, this only appeared around a month ago.
 
 Regards,
 Geoff