> > Anyone seen sysctl -a loop forever?  I haven't been able to track
> > down the MIB that it's gettinng hung up on, but it looks like
> > there's a flaw in the algo that is walking through the MIBs.
> > Given that this halts the machine while trying to collect entropy
> > (sysctl -a is used to help feed /dev/random) at system start up, I
> > think it's something worth addressing or pointing out.  -sc
> 
> I've observed this when e.g. I had too many nmbclusters configured,
> ie when vm.kvm_free was too low (0 in my case :)

Ah, hrm, I think you're onto something here.  I haven't played with
vm.kvm_free, but I do run with 65536 mbuf clusters.  Hrm...  this is
outside of my expertise.  I have 4.X boxes running with 130K mbuf
clusters (and I actually need to find a way to increase this further!)
so this is definately something I'll run into and likely others will
when they update their production boxen.  Is this a sysctl data
presentation issue?

-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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