Installation problem on G4

Roman Bogorodskiy novel at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 8 11:37:12 UTC 2013


  Konstantin Belousov wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 03:52:02PM +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've downloaded 9.2-RC1 iso to install it on G4.
> > 
> > However, installer doesn't start and the following error is reported:
> > 
> > vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> > 
> > it brings me into single user shell, but every command there also
> > results in the same messge:
> > 
> > vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> > Cannot fork: Cannot allocate memory
> > 
> > What could be wrong with that?
> 
> How much memory do you have ?
> 
> Show me the output of sysctl
> vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed
> kern.bio_transient_maxcnt
> kern.nbuf

It reports 1009MB of real memory and 974 MB avail memory.

Any tips how could I get the values of sysctl? Because 'sysctl' command
fails just like all the other commands.

Roman Bogorodskiy
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