Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:58:36 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jacques Fourie <jf@trispen.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pre-loaded mfsroot size and FreeBSD 4.9 with 4G RAM Message-ID: <20060208185836.GA55307@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060208164141.GA21718@trispen.com> References: <20060208164141.GA21718@trispen.com>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:41:41PM +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I am pre-loading an image (used as MFS root) from the boot loader on Free= BSD > 4.9 by using 'load -t mfs_root mfsroot' in loader.conf. The size of this > image is 64M. If I have 4G of RAM in the machine, the 64M size causes the > kernel to panic almost immediately. With only 2G of RAM the kernel boots > without a problem. I have tried to increase the KVA_PAGES value to 512 but > the kernel still panics. If I decrease the image size to 40M the kernel > boots successfully on a machine with 4G of RAM. Any ideas as to how I can= go > about finding (or fixing) this problem? Start by showing the panic ;-) Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6j9cWry0BWjoQKURAn6jAKD73OcYN0Z4OWdtKS4/6VuCsS6AvQCg8vj1 Fazrh17h462sEUDe5MXRDlI= =BwR3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--
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