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From: Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting 'vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed' errors after
	latest drm updates.
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:04:49PM -0600, Alan Cox wrote:
> Roughly speaking, vm.kvm_* pertain to the kernel's address space and
> vm.kmem_* pertain to the kernel's heap within its address space.  Your
> settings of vm.kmem_* have made the heap so large that there is little or no
> free space left in the address space for other things.  These other things,
> e.g., the buffer cache, are non-trivial in size.
> 
> So, the short answer is that you need to reduce vm.kmem_size.
> 
> Alan

Ah, so there's stuff the kernel allocates that's not inside the region 
controlled by kmem_size.  Interesting.

Anyway, knocking  vm.kmem_size down by 128M seems to fix things.  Thanks!

			Richard