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: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:36:14 +0100

 Martin Etteldorf wrote:
 > Kris,
 > 
 >> 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.
 > 
 > Thanks for your help. I increased the vm.kmem_size gradually in 25% steps
 > and after I reached 200% of the default value (671088640), the problem went
 > away.
 > 
 > Shouldn't I modify vm.kmem_size_max as well? It's currently still at its
 > default value, which is 335544320.
 
 That is just used for auto-tuning and is overridden when you set 
 kmem_size by hand, I think.
 
 Kris