Bugs while using encrypted HAMMER root fs
Matthias Schmidt
matthias at dragonflybsd.org
Tue Sep 28 10:46:43 PDT 2010
* Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> How much memory does this system have? The problem is almost
> certainly buffer cache / memory-exhaustion. The crypto layer
> uses memory heavily. We need a kernel panic / kernel core
> when it gets stuck to verify that is the issue. Swap cannot
> be encrypted if you want the kernel core to have a chance of
> succeeding in this situation.
>
> Both hammer cleanup and crypto are heavy kernel memory users.
I was able to crash the system but I didn't get a crash dump again. I
started dozens of applications in X (including FF and soffice) and ran
hammer reblock while on syscons. The last message I saw before the
system freezed was:
td 0xc04a24c0 (ithread 69) unexpectedly rescheduled
Cheers
Matthias
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