[rt-users] Resource availability problems

[freebsd at coal.sentex.ca]

I'm experiencing a rather vague problem on our RT box.  It's a
FreeBSD-STABLE box, as of yesterday, but the problem has been kicking around
for some time.

What's happening is that every so often -- and more often in the past couple
days -- I'll get a an error when editing a file.  It doesn't seem to follow
any pattern, and I've only seen it when using vi*.  The error is:

Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable

And then vi will freeze for a period of time (I've seen it from 1-~25
seconds), and I'll be booted out of the session.  Has anyone seen this
before?  Have any suggestions?

And the specifics...

Box: PIII/1GHz, 756MB RAM
OS: FreeBSD-STABLE, as of Aug. 20
HD: RAID1, 2x40GB drives
RT: 2.0.15pre1, also seen on 2.0.13
Backend: PostgreSQL 7.2.1_1, installed from the ports
VM Configuration:  These are mostly based on guesses.  Any comments
                   appreciated.

                   options         SHMMAXPGS=65536
                   options         SHMALL=65536
                   options         SHMMAX="(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)"
                   options         SEMMNS=127

Note that I don't think this is an RT problem, rather, I'm pretty sure it's
a configuration problem, probably in the VM kernel config lines above.  I'm
just wondering if anyone's seen this before, or has some general
recommendations for PostgreSQL SHM/SEM configurations.  I've done a quick
google search, but came up with nada.

* Also possibly related, we recently put an instance of RT up under SSL.  We
couldn't use it, because too many people were having timeouts or
page-not-found errors.  Apache runs on the same machine that RT does.  Not
sure if it was reporting the same problem or not.