At 17:25 17/01/2004, Peter Wood wrote: >I have come accross a reproducable panic in bother 5.2-Release and 5.2-Current >(as it was an hour ago). To perform this, I create two 750Mb memory disks, >format them and mount them. Quote from the mdconfig(8) man page: > malloc Storage for this type of memory disk is allocated with > malloc(9). This limits the size to the malloc bucket > limit in the kernel. If the -o reserve option is not > set, creating and filling a large malloc-backed memory > disk is a very easy way to panic a system. It doesn't look like this is going to be fixed any time soon -- see the discussion under pr kern/53350 -- so for now the answer is simply "don't do that". Colin PercivalReceived on Sat Jan 17 2004 - 10:03:10 UTC
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