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To: Mark E Larson <markl@agis.net>
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Subject: Re: Extended memory in 2.2.1 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:25:44 EST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:05:35 -0800
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>Howdy!
>
>This is my line in the kernel:
>
>options	"MAXMEM=393216"
>
>After compile, on boot up I recieve this message:
>
>real memory = 402653184 (393216K bytes)
>kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3
>panic: kmem_suballoc
>Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key to reboot

   This indicates that the kernel has run out of virtual memory - indicating
that you were previously right on the edge of running out and that the machine
would likely have been unreliable even when it did 'work'.
   Send me a copy of you kernel config file and I'll help you tune it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project