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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:44:22 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Boston <cb@severious.net>
Cc:        Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small (AMD64)
Message-ID:  <46FD75B6.7050709@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070928133452.GA52277@nowhere>
References:  <20070928133452.GA52277@nowhere>

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Craig Boston wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:28:36AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>> You're all missing the point, I hate to say.  What happened is that a
>> change was made recently to more accurately account for allocated
>> memory.  Now people are getting kmem_map_too_small panics that weren't
>> getting them before.  So while the accounting is now more accurate,
>> the outcome is actually harmful.  That needs to be fixed before the
>> release.
> 
> Agreed.  A month ago I had zfs running perfectly on many different i386
> machines (albeit with some tweaking to kernel parameters).  With a
> week-old current, it always panics sooner or later now, no matter how
> low I set the ARC cache size or maxvnodes or how much I pump into
> kmem_size.
> 
> Now kmem_map panics are being reported on amd64, which was pretty much
> unheard of before.

FYI, no :)

Kris




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