PAE: Cannot fork

[Dennis Nikiforov]

There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible.

On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote:

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> On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov <dennis.nikiforov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
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>        I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard PAE kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed like this have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue because all memory tests have been negative.
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>        basically the issue comes after PAE kernel has been compiled and the system outputs all the time the following:
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>        cannot fork kstack allocation failed or vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
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>        Since, this is a dell server there is basically nothing that I can disable in BIOS, so perhaps someone knows what loader options do I need to tweak the kernel and stop this from happening.
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> Thanks,
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> why not use 64 bit as the r210 should be capable