From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 2 12:48:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55BE14D1C for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA49836; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:47:59 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199904021933.OAA26517@cs.rpi.edu> References: Message from "Addr.com Web Hosting" of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:25:33 PST." <4.1.19990402112404.0267b120@mail.addr.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:47:56 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Kernel panic question. - need KVA fix in -STABLE!! Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:33 PM -0500 4/2/99, David E. Cross wrote: > You have been hit by the KVA issue. (WE *NEED* TO FIX THIS) > It is tickled by a large ammount of RAM and/or a high maxusers, > you have both. :I > > If you wish I can (via private email) step you through the patch > for this, it is not complicated. Will we (FreeBSD) be sure to have this fix in -STABE before it becomes 3.2-RELEASE? The way this KVA issue behaves, it causes things to break in very non-obvious ways. It's cheap enough to buy RAM that more and more people may find themselves running into this. (this is a question for freebsd-stable or the core team, of course, and not Dave!) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message