kern/118955: googleearth causes panic in 7.0-BETA4/i386 - kmem_malloc/kmem_map too small

[Martin Etteldorf]

The following reply was made to PR kern/118955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Etteldorf <etteldor at mail.be>
To: kris at FreeBSD.org
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 15:58:18 +0100 (CET)

 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.
 
 Kind regards,
 
 
 Martin Etteldorf
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