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Re: pegasosII hung with new kernel - page daemon spinning



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On 09/23/2012 12:51 AM, matthew green wrote:
> with some help from chuq@ we've narrowed this down to the 
> kmem_arena being under 10% empty:
> 
> db> call uvm_km_va_starved_p 1
> 
> which keeps the main loop from sleeping.  but why this is full and 
> not being fixed by the page daemon isn't a mystery.
> 
> 
> .mrg.
> 

That's interessting what size does the arena have on the system with
512mb? Probably limited by NKMEMPAGES_MAX_DEFAULT, so it might need to
be larger on those.

Lars

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