panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Jun 12 01:40:29 GMT 2005


On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Tom Jensen wrote:
> Got the following panic on a 5.4 box(i386):
> 
> panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated
> 
> Uname: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #4: Sun May  8 01:57:26 CEST 2005
> 
> Had two ntfs partitions mounted and was doing a find . -name *.pst on one of
> them.
> 
> Following info collected, but kernel dump aviable if more information is
> needed.

How much RAM in your system, and what is your kernel config?  This can
be caused by two things:

* A memory leak in FreeBSD

* Incorrect tuning of your kernel memory parameters and causing the
kernel to run out of memory.

Kris
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