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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:27:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980114122734.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199801130328.TAA18904@implode.root.com>

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On 13-Jan-98 David Greenman wrote:
>>       vnodes145070 24237K  24237K 39322K   246196    0     0  16,32,256
> 
>    Huh - 145070 vnodes? How much physical memory is in this machine? I
> have
> a gigabyte of RAM in wcarchive and it peaks at about 87,000. This looks
> like
> a vnode leak to me. Which version of FreeBSD is this?

384MB or RAM. 3.0-current as of 12-Jan.

What do I do about the vnode leak?

The way to trigger it is to cd into one LARGE directory and do
``find . | cpio -dmpv /Destination''


>>Memory Totals:  In Use    Free    Requests
>>                57971K    554K     4718664

I have seen the FREE go down to 38K or so.

>    ...no surprise that the machine is panicing.

Dumb Question:  Which is the alert and why?

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313



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