panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: md-mounted /tmp filled up

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:59:46AM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 15:53, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> > = > Yes, I switched to swap-backed md already. But the malloc-based variety is 
> > = > currently the _default_ (see /etc/defaults/rc.conf)...
> > = Bad default.
> > 
> > Filing a PR.
> 
> Keep in mind that changing the default can break existing setups.
> Such setups are likely to be broken anyway, but...  E.g., if we
> drop the -M flag, it will break systems with tons of RAM but little
> swap using tmpmfs.

How will it break them?  swap backing only touches swap if there is
memory pressure, i.e. precisely the situation in which malloc backing
will panic.

Kris
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