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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:55:52 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: zfs and kmem_map too small panic 
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> I'm running i386 on an AMD64 X2 with 2GB of RAM.
> 
> I used to see panics until I made the following additions:
> 
> /boot/loader.conf
> vfs.zfs.zil_disable="1"
> vm.kmem_size="536870912"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="67108865"
> 
> /etc/sysctl.conf
> kern.maxvnodes=74500 [was 100000]

Many thanks!  This did the trick.  So far no crashes!  Would
be nice if correct defaults are set on loading zfs.ko.