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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:40:21 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tuning KVA_PAGES / kmem?
Message-ID:  <20040420134021.GD64842@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <F2014C7A-92BB-11D8-BB31-000393496BE8@lassitu.de>
References:  <F2014C7A-92BB-11D8-BB31-000393496BE8@lassitu.de>

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:14:52PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm struggling a bit with a box I'm setting up right now: 2x Xeon 2.8 =20
> GHz with 6 GB RAM. Main disk is a RAID 5 on 3ware controller. I'm =20
> running -current from around Easter.
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> Occasionally, the machine panics with:
> panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 275251200 total allocated
> at line 337 in file /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_kern.c
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> I had stability problems when I was using PAE, so I disabled that for =20
> the moment; even when running GENERIC, I get this panic.
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> I dug through the archives, and I found some hints that with >>2 GB =20
> RAM, the auto-tuning might produce undesirable results, so I might need =
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> to tune KVA_PAGES to reserve more address space for the kernel, or =20
> fiddle with VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX, VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE, or some vm sysctls.
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> Can someone point me in the right direction?
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See sys/i386/conf/NOTES, when it talks about KVA_PAGES, for the
starters.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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