i386/179112: 9.1 installer panics with a kmem_malloc() failure on i386 embedded systems

[Marius Strobl]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:48:21AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Did the kmem_size_scale parameter get changed too?

Not AFAICT.

> 
> Did you test this on 128mb or 256mb of RAM (in a VM will do) to see if
> you still panic shortly after boot?

Yup; I've built a snapshot from r253860 which can be downloaded here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/re/FreeBSD-9.2-BETA2-i386/
and installs fine here in a VM having 128 MB of RAM.

> Doing any kind of file/net IO
> quickly leads to death.

That's a very vague description of a test case. At least extracting
the six release tarballs is no longer a problem, though.

Marius