ia64 stable/10 r286316: hang at Entering /boot/kernel/kernel

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From mexas at bristol.ac.uk Fri Aug 28 11:34:20 2015
>
>What about my loader.conf:
>
># cat /boot/loader.conf 
>zfs_load="YES"
># soft limits
>kern.dfldsiz=536748032  # default soft limit for process data
>kern.dflssiz=536748032  # default soft limit for stack
># hard limits
>kern.maxdsiz=536748032  # hard limit for process data
>kern.maxssiz=536748032  # hard limit for stack
>kern.maxtsiz=536748032  # hard limit for text size
>                        # processes may not exceed these limits.
># 
>
>My memory:
>
>real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>avail memory = 8387649536 (7999 MB)
>
>I'll try disabling all these settings in loader.conf
>and see if makes a difference.
>But these settings have been there for a few years
>with no problems.
>
>Anton

yes, this does help:

# uname -a
FreeBSD  10.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-PRERELEASE #12 r286316: Thu Aug 27 11:03:44 BST 2015     root at mech-as28.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  ia64
#

I guess I now need to check if
it's zfs of the limits.

Anton