Archive for July, 2007



ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Trying to keep server live under huge DDoS. After some time following message appeared:
ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules

Problem solved after i change following sysctl value:

net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max
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PAE and 8GB - page fault

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Here is some notes about PAE on FreeBSD and high amount (>4GB) of memory. I have use PAE few times, but only with 4GB of memory. This time i had 8 on production server, so reinstall to amd64 is not option, thats because i choose PAE.

I thought that is trivial task untill i get panic: page fault while booting to new PAE kernel. Here is screenshot:

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