PANIC in kmem_alloc when loading many modules

Alan Cox alc at cs.rice.edu
Thu Jan 15 13:47:36 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:25:19PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Please try increasing UMA_BOOT_PAGES.  It's defined in vm/uma_int.h.
> 
> I missed the begining of this thread.  Are we loading modules before the
> VM is bootstrapped?  If we are, we should probably fix that.  If not, why
> do we need more boot pages?

My understanding is that these are preloaded modules.  There was
a similar report last week that was resolved by increasing
UMA_BOOT_PAGES.

Alan



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