Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:41:30 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: "Garrett R. Groesbeck" <garrett.groesbeck@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE - Trouble Booting on SPARC64 - kmem_suballoc error Message-ID: <20120229204130.GA61509@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <000001ccf4d6$66513b00$32f3b100$@gmail.com> References: <000001ccf4d6$66513b00$32f3b100$@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:31:35PM -0500, Garrett R. Groesbeck wrote: > Hello, > > I hope you are well. I've been working on a Sun Blade 2000 with FreeBSD 9.0 > (sparc64) installed. > > There's trouble with /boot/loader.conf when you try to boot the install disc > (and even after the install when I try to boot up): > > panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3 > > So when it gives me the chance to enter a boot command, I enter the > following: > > OK set hw.physmem=1048576000 > That apparently is a bug in the MI part of the VM triggered by the highly fragment physical memory of b1k and b2k with 2 GB of RAM. You can work around it by setting the vm.kmem_size_scale tunable to 2 without sacrificing physical memory. The latter meanwhile is also the default set by the MD part, awaiting further clues from alc@. Marius
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