Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 01:35:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pmap_zero_page and kmem_malloc panics Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960414013133.6658G-100000@zap.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199604140358.UAA02986@Root.COM>
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On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, David Greenman wrote:
>
> 1) The calculation didn't account for NMBCLUSTERS, so if a large number of
> clusters was specified, it would leave little or no space for kernel
> malloc.
Yep, this definitely would be the case... as I mentioned, I've got
NMBCLUSTERS jacked up to 8192 on the Web/FTP machine since I've seen
it spike over 5000 several times. BTW, does NMBCLUSTERS have to be a
power-2 number, or is that just "convention"?
> I strongly encourage you to upgrade the affected machines to -stable.
Thanks, David. I will do so immediately.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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