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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!198.6.9.51!TIS_NEWS!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How Can I Fix This Kernel Problem? Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 01:14:01 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 25 Message-ID: <333A1029.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <333a8580.0@news.topend.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37820 Site Admin wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > This is an error message I've been seeing recently. I run around 20 modems > off this one machine. > > Mar 22 19:44:17 darwin /kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0 > The machine is a Pentium 133 with 64MB of RAM > > Normally this error occurs after a warm reboot, sometimes it is corrected > if I reboot several times. Other times only a full power down and power > up corrects the fault. > > It affects only the modems that we run. The getty process can't be > spawned as it appears the ports aren't being allowed to fire up on > a reboot. > Try changing the 16 in line 357 of machdep.c to 32 or more. John dyson@freebsd.org