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>>I have a server running a moderately current 2.2.5 (about 3000-4000
>>processes), that is dying with the above listed panic semi-regularly.
>>
>>The server has 512MB of RAM in it, and does lots of NFS traffic. (keeps a
>>100MB half-duplex ethernet running about 40% of capacity.
>>
>>I have maxusers set to 256 in config, but not sure what other parameters
>>may need to be bumped, or more importantly, how they relate to maxusers.
>>
>>Any tip appreciated.
>
>   In the file /sys/i386/include/vmparam.h, change the parameter VM_KMEM_SIZE
>to 64MB.

Perhaps this should be made a config option for now?

Chris

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