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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/87255: [md] [panic] large malloc-backed mfs crashes the
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +0000, Dominique Goncalves wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/87255; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, yar@comp.chem.msu.su
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/87255: [md] [panic] large malloc-backed mfs crashes the system
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:28:52 +0200
> 
>  Hi,
>  
>  On a recent FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #11: Tue Jul 18 11:12:05 CEST 2006, I
>  can also reproduce this panic. It's a bit annoying because I use
>  FreeBSD with freesbie2 on USB keys.
>  
>  What's the status of this issue ?

Per other followup to the PR, it's not really a bug, more that md is
being used incorrectly.  Use swap backing or -o reserve to avoid
panics when you run your kernel out of memory.

Kris