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From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
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Subject: Re: vm.kmem_size revisited [update]
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Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> What is the maximum value of "vm.kmem_size"? I tried to set it to 
> vm.kmem_size=1069543424 (with 2G physical memory) but that apparently 
> did not work out nicely (lost the machine, it's remote).

Got to the machine in question, the only information on console was:
kern_suballoc: bad status return of 3
panic: kern_suballoc
uptime: 1s

FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE Thu Mar  2 23:41:27 CET 2006