Harddiskproblems

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Oct 1 11:04:03 PDT 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:42:34AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > since 3 weeks i've problems with my 5.1-CURRENT Box. When i try to
> > delete very large direktories (for examplte the builddir of a make
> > release) the box Panics. 
> > 
> > panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map to small: 275251200 total allocated
> > cpuid=0: lapic.id = 00000000
> > boot() called on cpu#0
> > 
> > The Box hangs after that. no automatic reboot. 
> 
> And presumably no backtrace/dump possible?  If you're not using a serial
> console, you might want to try it and see if you get more reliable access
> to the debugger.

Or disable SMP - I have seen this kind of hang-on-panic a lot on SMP machines.

Kris
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