FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Leroy van Logchem wrote:

> Best mailinglist,
>
> Short:
>
> I'am having panics while transfering alot of files using NFS (as client).
>
> Long:
>
> After succesfull synchronization of two complete filesystems using NFS
> v3 (udp) I restarted the ssync after couple of hours idle time and got:
>
> panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small

Leroy,

You're running out of kmem. Try the following kernel options:

options         VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(768*1048576)
options         VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE=2

If you want to know what these mean/do, search the mailing list.

Regards,
Andy

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