panic: vm_map_entry_create: kernel resources exhausted

hello all, I have to set up a box able to run >5000 processes. I have the hardware for it (i386 architecture, lots of RAM, lots of CPU power) I'm playing with VM parameters, tuning everything possible, but can't get more than 3800 - 4000 processes without getting the box unstable. I need some h

PAM modules

hello, I've just played a bit with libpam, and the modules. My basic problem is: I _really need_ login accounting, and pam_limits.so (in Linux-PAM) does a good work for me. I have seen that the code imported into the cvs tree is rather old - (v0.65?) so I grabbed the new sources, and started ha

Re: Compiler error while compiling XFree86-3.9.17

> I assume this is a compiler bug. Is there a workaround or a patch > available for the system compiler or should I install the gcc-devel port > (for which I probably don't have enough disk space, but oh well)? yes, it's a bug, and you can work around it by removing the CFLAG -O2 anyway, XFree8

Re: linux kld: sblive

> So I've missed the whole discussion on the sblive driver timetable and > the archives didn't help much. And I just grabbed creative's source for > a linux driver from opensource.creative.com. Needless to say, it needs > some work before it will compile. Is anybody else working on this? I'm > tir

[OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

Hi, is there any alternative (non-commercial) C compiler to use, or is gcc the best? I have just upgraded my system to -current w/egcs 2.95.2 and I have several problems with it, especially when using optimizations (-O2 and such) ok I know there's the good old gcc 2.7.2.3 but a good BSD-license

umount -f causes page fault in kernel?

hi, mount /cdrom cd /cdrom umount -f /cdrom cd .. will cause 100% reproduceable kernel panic (page fault) I know forced umount is dangerous, but soo ... =P it's 3.3-RELEASE -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: silo overflows

> Do you have UDMA turned on? is ``flags 0xa0ffa0ff'' enough or should I set something else too? -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: silo overflows

> what kind of disk to you have? and the chipset? (this may seem irrelevant > but misconfigured DMA devices can block the cpu for long enough to cause > this sort of thing in some cases). ALSO check systat -vmstat while this > is happenning and check that you don't have a source of spurious > inte