event queue is full

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robertcerny

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MacBook Pro, 10.4.6, VM beta 3

When VM is running, working on extensive task (convert bin to iso) I'm unable to start any application in Mac OS X. The console is full of these messages:
kernel[0]: fs_events: add_event: event queue is full! dropping events.
 
robertcerny said:
MacBook Pro, 10.4.6, VM beta 3

When VM is running, working on extensive task (convert bin to iso) I'm unable to start any application in Mac OS X. The console is full of these messages:
kernel[0]: fs_events: add_event: event queue is full! dropping events.
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I've seen something similar just a few minutes ago. It kept spawning smbd processes continuously until I get proc table full. I was able to get out of it by quitting PW and doing killall smbd in the terminal.
 
I'll add a report that I'm still seeing this behavior with OS 10.4.6 on a Macbook Pro 15" with beta 6 of PW, connecting to the Mac from an XP Pro client with PW not even running.
Smbd processes spawn out of control and require a killall to recover. The problem appears to be alleviated by disabling the virtual ethernet adaptor and the Parallels Host-Guest adapter.
Also, repeated errors included below appear in the nmbd and smbd logs when the virtual network ports are enabled:
Code: 
[2006/05/09 22:46:33, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.15/samba/source/nmbd/nmbd.c:main(687)
  standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
[2006/05/09 22:46:33, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.15/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(724)
  bind failed on port 137 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.
  Error = Address already in use

Also, I find that network browsing for Windows clients in the host OS is unreliable when the virtual network ports are enabled in the Mac's Network configuration. Often, no servers appear.
 
kernel[0]: fs_events: add_event: event queue is full! dropping events.

Hi-

I installed Parallels on my daughter's Macbook, which is not a very fast machine due to only 512MB memory. However, when I got Windows XP installed in a Parallels VM the machine ground nearly to a halt. XP was doing an update, so getting lots of things from the network and installing them, and the machine was pretty much not usable.

I found the error quoted in the title of this post (thousands of them) in my system log file.

I see others have seen this and someone from Parallels said, several months ago, that they were looking into it.

Any insight?
 
I ripped out the 512MB memory and put in 2 GB of memory, and this fixed the problem. Two lessons here:

a) Do not trust standard-issue Apple configurations (I didn't even look, but would have questioned how one could imagine MacOS running reasonably well with only 512MB memory. It doesn't)

b) Don't even *try* to run Parallels with only 512MB of memory.
 
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