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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: kmem_map overflow with 0.2.2 kernel
Date: 28 Mar 93 09:45:35
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar28094535@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <C4Kw3q.C6M@sugar.neosoft.com> <f0#VeOr@quack.kfu.com>
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In-reply-to: mrapple@quack.kfu.com's message of 28 Mar 93 17:40:09 GMT

In article <f0#VeOr@quack.kfu.com> mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>I have a 486 with 16M of RAM. I was getting regular kmem_map panics
>when stressing the NFS code.

hmm, i've been seeing them when beating on the disk, in general...

i'm not sure (i'm in the process of tracking it down),
but there's either something *awfully* kernel-malloc-intensive someplace
in the disk usage code, or (more likely in my opinion),
there's a memory leak some place or other...

>I had to raise the figure in
>/sys/sys/vm_map.h from 1000 to 10000.

hmm, this could alleviate the problem, i guess...



anybody have more of a clue on this one?


chris
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

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