Kstack allocation failed
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Hi everybody,
On a system having 25K states, after 5 hours I got kstack allocation failed and the WebGui is giving errors everywhere (cannont fork, division by zero) etc.
HW is Dell r610 with 2 intel Xeon Quad core and 8 GB of RAM, broadcom NICs
Release is 1.2.3 release
Have you got a clue.
Do we need to tune vm.kmem_size in the loader.conf ?
Many thanks
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My guess would be a kernel memory leak. What does pfSense call your NICs? (e.g. em0, bge1, bce2 etc)
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bce0 to bce7
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Another poster with the same system has reported (http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,29775.0.html) that the bce devices have a memory mapped register region of 32MB per device. If the device driver just blindly maps the whole region (I don't know if it needs to) then you will have 256MB of kernel virtual address space just for the device registers. That will probably leave "not very much" for other kernel purposes.
The other poster reported two bce devices on the motherboard for a total of 10 which would mean even greater requirements for kernel memory.
So, yes, you should probably substantially increase the size of kernel memory.
And you would be better off moving to the 64-bit version of pfSense (not yet considered ready for production) as soon as you can so you can use all of that memory on the system. (You are unlikely to be using more than 3GB at present).
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Many thanks for your reply. It is what I was thinking of.
It is strange I made a search and did find this particular thread….