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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: kern/53350: fill up a malloc md-disk on 5.1-R causes panic 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/53350; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Jason Kuri <jay@oneway.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/53350: fill up a malloc md-disk on 5.1-R causes panic 
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:35:05 +0200

 In message <FC408487-9F4E-11D7-B102-00039398BAE0@oneway.com>, Jason Kuri writes
 :
 >Hi there,
 >
 >That makes sense... but hold on a sec.
 >
 >I have 256M of ram, and try to use 110M for malloc-disk, and my machine 
 >panics?  That seems awfully broken to me. 
 
 Notice I said "Kernel mapped memory".
 
 That's usually on the order of 1/3 or your RAM.
 
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