Repeatable ZFS "kmem map too small" panic on 8.0-STABLE

[Adam McDougall]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:24:36PM -0800, Artem Belevich wrote:

  > % sysctl hw.physmem vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vfs.zfs.arc_max
  >
  > hw.physmem:4102688768
  > vm.kmem_size: 2147483648
  
  Here's your problem -- kmem_size is for some reason only 2G.
  
  Argh! I ran into that before. The code in sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
  intentionally limits kmem_size to twice the physical memory size:
  
          /*
           * Limit kmem virtual size to twice the physical memory.
           * This allows for kmem map sparseness, but limits the size
           * to something sane. Be careful to not overflow the 32bit
           * ints while doing the check.
           */
          if (((vm_kmem_size / 2) / PAGE_SIZE) > cnt.v_page_count)
                  vm_kmem_size = 2 * cnt.v_page_count * PAGE_SIZE;
  
  So, either comment out these lines or just set vm.kmem_size to
  slightly below 8G.
  
  --Artem

That works for me and a friend of mine, I didn't realize that my kmem_size
was being capped.  I tested it on a 8.0-prerel server with 8G of ram,
kmem_size set to 20G in the loader but the resulting kmem_size was less than
4G before the patch.  Now it is 20G.  So, I'm not sure it calculates it properly?