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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7303 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:51:27 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!zombie!tjw00 From: tjw00@zombie.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Tom Wye) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] Panic kmem_malloc Message-ID: <0drC02d633xt01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 20 Jan 93 00:33:46 GMT References: <107311@bu.edu> <1j9aviINN9h7@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Lines: 33 |> In article <107311@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes: |> [stuff deleted...[ |> >src to the unix commands. Partway through the unpacking |> >(I did "cat src01.*|uncompress|cpio -icdvum"), about where it |> >was extracting stuff to usr/src/obj, the system paniced as follows: |> > |> >Panic: kmem_malloc: kmem_map too small |> > |> >Is this a known problem? Any work-around so I can get the |> >srcdist unpacked? |> > |> |> |> I had precisely the same error yesterday afternoon. It was the first time |> in a month that I had the system crash on its own. I was doing a ping, and |> had two users logged in through the network. No one was doing anything |> unusual. |> |> Except for the fact that our hardware is completely different, and I have |> installed all of the pertinent patches, our systems are similar. |> |> I will be digging into this over the weekend, but if anyone can offer an |> explanation of what causes it, maybe we can search for a solution. I have had this problem too but on compiles of X11R5 and then during the make install process of X11R5. At the time I had the kernel configurated as a 2 user kernel when I increased the number of users to 10 in the config file the problem goes away. At this point with the GENERICISA config file set to 10 users I have not experienced kmem_melloc panics. When the kernel is set for only 2 users I get a panic ever time (one hours into the compile of X11R5). It's happens even faster on the install of X11R5 (i.e., make install') within 2-5 minutes the system panics. I have the patch kit installed and the system has 16 megabytes of memory!