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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 18:56:28 +0200

 In message <A228C296-9F51-11D7-B102-00039398BAE0@oneway.com>, Jason Kuri writes
 :
 >Ok, so speaking practically, how do I deal with this issue?  I have a 
 >script that needs to be able to cache directories in ram... 
 
 You add more RAM or change the fraction of RAM assigned to KVM.
 I can't remember if this is documented somewhere.
 
 mdconfig(8) would have a hard time being able to tell when to reject
 a request, and for testing purposes, it is a very convenient thing
 to be able to create 1TB devices (and this works, as long as you 
 don't fill it with more data than you have KVM to).
 
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