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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7171 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:49:17 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] Panic kmem_malloc Date: 16 Jan 1993 09:52:18 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1j9aviINN9h7@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <107311@bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <107311@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes: [stuff deleted...[ >src to the unix commands. Partway through the unpacking >(I did "cat src01.*|uncompress|cpio -icdvum"), about where it >was extracting stuff to usr/src/obj, the system paniced as follows: > >Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small > >Is this a known problem? Any work-around so I can get the >srcdist unpacked? > I had precisely the same error yesterday afternoon. It was the first time in a month that I had the system crash on its own. I was doing a ping, and had two users logged in through the network. No one was doing anything unusual. Except for the fact that our hardware is completely different, and I have installed all of the pertinent patches, our systems are similar. I will be digging into this over the weekend, but if anyone can offer an explanation of what causes it, maybe we can search for a solution. TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/MIS Brooks AFB, TX