5.1 PAE testing results: 2 panics
    Terry Lambert 
    tlambert2 at mindspring.com
       
    Fri May 23 01:16:45 PDT 2003
    
    
  
"Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" wrote:
> 
> As requested, here is the dmesg from this system with the PAE kernel.  I
> tried maxvnodes set to 100000, but had the same "kmem_map too small"
> panic.  I will try "clamping" the memory in machdep.c next...
Yes.  This is going to be necessary; we see here:
> real memory  = 9126805504 (8704 MB)
> avail memory = 8613085184 (8214 MB)
that it's seeing all the memory.  It has to base it's calculations
on the amount of real memory available for use in wired pages for
KVA.
Jake could better tell you how much KVA/UVA is lost to the bank
selection overhead; a good guesstimate (IMO) would be to use the
value of "3G" for the calculations for all the kernel allocations
that the "automatic" of "MAXUSERS=0" selects.
You may also want to just try (as a quick-and-dirty hack) setting
"MAXUSERS=256" or something similar, and see if it gets you to an
initial (badly tuned) boot.
-- Terry
    
    
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