Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE

[Stephen Clark]

Ivan Voras wrote:

>Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>looking at kmem_suballoc which calls vm_map_find which returns
>>KERN_NO_SPACE
>>which is defined as 3.
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>>Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory?
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>1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of
>memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that
>many values)
>2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get enough
>memory
>3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored in
>kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot of
>those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see
>http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore
>ZFS-specific things).
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Hi Ivan,

It made no difference. Still the same error.

Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found practically 
no information using
google.


Steve

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