Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:

>> Interestingly, there's been a bunch of reports of this in the past few 
>> days, and there weren't immediately after the malloc commit.  I wonder if 
>> some other recent change has increased the amount of UMA memory allocated 
>> early in the boot, increasing the level of reports...
>
>  Increase UMA_BOOT_PAGES to prevent a crash during initialization.  See
>  http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42AD8270.8060906 for a detailed
>  description of the crash.

Yeah, this is the fix, but I guess I'm wondering what caused a recent 
spate of problem reports -- was it a delayed response to the malloc change 
as people gradually upgraded, or some other recent kernel change that 
caused increase demand for memory.

Robert N M Watson