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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:24:21 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: md-mounted /tmp filled up
Message-ID:  <200702271624.21474@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <20070227210943.GA56889@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200702271059.09230@aldan> <20070227210943.GA56889@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:09, Kris Kennaway wrote:
= Documented in the manpage, use swap backing or reserve enough space.
= 
= Kris

The strings "panic" and "-o reserve" are mentioned in neither mdmfs(8) nor in 
rc.conf(5)... Is one supposed to look elsewhere?

Worse, the use of malloc-based mds is touted in rc.conf as something, that is 
supposed to help "system stability at low memory conditions".

All I did on this system, was set 

	tmpmfs="YES"
	tmpsize="2048m"

in the /etc/rc.conf.

Alex has already said, that using malloc-backed md is a bad default -- do you 
disagree?

	-mi





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