kern/118955: googleearth causes panic in 7.0-BETA4/i386 - kmem_malloc/kmem_map too small

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/118955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Martin Etteldorf <etteldor at mail.be>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/118955: googleearth causes panic in 7.0-BETA4/i386 -	kmem_malloc/kmem_map
 too small
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:10:11 +0100

 Martin Etteldorf wrote:
 >> Number:         118955
 >> Category:       kern
 >> Synopsis:       googleearth causes panic in 7.0-BETA4/i386 - kmem_malloc/kmem_map too small
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       serious
 >> Priority:       low
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 22 18:30:01 UTC 2007
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Martin Etteldorf
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4
 >> Organization:
 > -
 >> Environment:
 > FreeBSD kadath.gruftie.net 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #2: Fri Dec  7 20:38:50 MET 2007     etteldor at kadath.gruftie.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KADATH  i386
 > 
 >> Description:
 > googleearth crashes the system after visiting 3 or 4 locations.
 > 
 > 
 > savecore: reboot after panic: kmem_malloc(2097152): kmem_map too small: 328527872 total allocated
 > Dec 22 18:55:52 kadath savecore: reboot after panic: kmem_malloc(2097152): kmem_map too small: 328527872 total allocated
 > savecore: writing core to vmcore.0
 
 Your kernel ran out of memory.  Increase the vm.kmem_size tunable in 
 /boot/loader.conf (it usually defaults to 300*1024*1024 = 314572800) 
 until the problem goes away.  If the problem persists even with a large 
 kmem_map there might be a memory leak in the kernel.
 
 Kris