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

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Tue Mar 6 13:16:32 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:14:29PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 08:23, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> = > 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.
> = 
> = I forgot that in BSD swap wouldn't be allocated in advance to its
> = consumers.  Then removing the -M flag and making swap backing the
> = default is a very sound choice.  Thank you for correcting me.
> 
> Yar, would you change the man-page's advice and the default, then?

Done in CURRENT.  I'll MFC it in a week.

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Yar


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