quick interactivity? question regarding -current

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 10 07:37:06 PDT 2004


On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:44:51AM +0100, Markie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I updated my 'do-it-all' home server box from 5.2.1-R to -CURRENT the other
> day, as suggested by someone a month ago because I was having panics along
> the lines of "kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small". Now, I can't
> immediately tell if this upgrade has solved my problem as the first one
> appeared after 50 days of uptime (ish) and the one that happened the other
> day (same panic) occured after only around 20 days, this is when I decided
> to go for the installkernel/world.

Did you try seeing where all the memory went?  I reimplemented KVM support
in vmstat -m for -CURRENT, so it should be more useful for that if you get
a core dump (admittedly, a rare thing ...).

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