Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 21:00:31 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/63986: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 panics when removing large diretories Message-ID: <200403100500.i2A50VJi037723@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/63986; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/63986: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 panics when removing large diretories Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:45:46 -0800 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > real memory = 4160684032 (3967 MB) > avail memory = 4044120064 (3856 MB) > When I try to delete large directory (the build dir of make release for example) freebsd panic with > panic: kmem_malloc(4096) kmem_map to small: 275251200 total allocated The problem is that the default kernel auto-sizing parameters are sometimes too small for large memory machines. You can fix the problem by tuning them yourself; see kern/53416 for an older PR with details. Kris
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