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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:14:29 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: md-mounted /tmp filled up
Message-ID:  <200703051314.29902@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <20070305132350.GB57253@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <20070227205351.GA72597@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20070305035945.GA71660@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070305132350.GB57253@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Monday 05 March 2007 08:23, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
= > How will it break them?  swap backing only touches swap if there is
= > memory pressure, i.e. precisely the situation in which malloc backing
= > will panic.
= 
= I forgot that in BSD swap wouldn't be allocated in advance to its
= consumers.  Then removing the -M flag and making swap backing the
= default is a very sound choice.  Thank you for correcting me.

Yar, would you change the man-page's advice and the default, then?

Someone still needs to look into the panic... Who would that be?

	-mi



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