Wedging on low memory systems
John Klos <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:22:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello, I have two low memory machines that wedge now and then, and so far I haven't had much luck getting in to the kernel debugger to see what's up when it happens. One system is a Mac LC II with 10 megabytes. Even just trying to let it run the default startup startup scripts will result in a wedge, and I have never succeeded in getting to the kernel debugger on it. The other is an LC III+ with 36 megs. This has been enough memory that I've been able to do things like compile Perl, but now and then it still wedges. I did notice that this reduces the incidence of wedging: vm.anonmax: 80 -> 60 vm.filemax: 50 -> 30 vm.filemin: 10 -> 5 Today it wedged while building stuff in pkgsrc, and although I was able to get in to the kernel debugger, it didn't respond to the keyboard. However, SIGINFO on an open shell gave: [ 3462044.0029799] load: 0.00 cmd: sh 20540 [ptpage] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 0k This makes me wonder if we're miscalculating nptpage and it shows up only on low memory systems. Thoughts or suggestions? John