FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated [solved]

[Fabian Keil]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:32:34PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> 
> > I guess you're right. I can fill a 256MB swap-backed disk without
> > panic and without swapping.
> 
> FYI, this is documented in the manpage.

I think the panic potential should be mentioned in md(4) as well.

I used a script not written by me, the commands used were working
and after the panic I only read man md. Of course mdconfig(8) is
mentioned twice, but I didn't think I needed more information
about it.  

Fabian
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