Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:03:17 +0200 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: kmem_map too small Message-ID: <3DDD4A15.4030209@he.iki.fi> References: <0e3b01c28fc4$ff9a4ee0$862a40c1@PHE> <20021119152114.GA2228@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3DDBDE2B.6050407@he.iki.fi> <20021120195919.GA679@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <11fd01c290eb$f48311e0$862a40c1@PHE> <20021121022524.GA2300@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <126801c2912c$5be3cec0$862a40c1@PHE> <20021121205515.GA5716@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: >Most kernel memory is not pageable, so swap probably won't help >you. Your `kmem_map too small' error message should report to you >the size of the attempted allocation and the size of kmem_map. >If the map really isn't full, I'm not sure why you would get this >panic, unless you're somehow running into excessive fragmentation. > > Nov 3 21:44:52 giga /kernel: panic: kmem_malloc(71000064): kmem_map too small: 183193600 total allocated Nov 3 22:10:30 giga /kernel: panic: kmem_malloc(71000064): kmem_map too small: 175476736 total allocated This is what I'm seeing. Most of the kernel allocated memory was free at the time the panic occurred, but fragmented though. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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