* De: "David W. Chapman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-11-22 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: Lots of swapping from 'kldload acpi' ]
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:56:29AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I tried to kldload acpi on a system that has been running for about 3
> > days, and the kldload process has been sitting there swapping for
> > about an hour now. Breaking into DDB shows that
> > acpi_alloc_wakeup_handler() is trying to contigmalloc(), and this is
> > swapping around presumably trying to find enough space. The kldload
> > process is unkillable from userland because it's working in the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Can something be done to guard against this?
>
> From what I was told you can't kldload acpi after boot or that you
> shouldn't.
It might make sense to (once we go to user-space) prevent kldloading
anything that calls contigmalloc().
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