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On Aug 12, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Sean Bruno <sean_bruno@yahoo.com> wrote:

> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/10_i386_vmfault.txt
> 
> I can never tell if stuff like this is because I'm not nerfing the
> system RAM correctly or if this is i386 bit-rot.  
> 
> I set hw.physmem="2g" in loader.conf to try and get the system to boot,
> but I don't think I did it right?
> 

That shouldn't happen.  Maybe you've run out of kmem?  It's limited to only
like 400MB on i386.  Or maybe you've blown out a data structure with all
of those CPUs.

Scott