On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ronald Klop wrote: > > > I get the following panics while untarring a 30MB archive on an md device > > create with: > > tmpmfs="YES" > > tmpsize="256m" > > This is a malloc-backed md disk, which consumes memory directly from > KVM. If you do a large extraction it will consume all of KVM and cause > your panic. Unless you're running diskless and this is your only option > besides NFS, either don't use tmpmfs or avoid extracting large amounts > of data to /tmp. What you want to do is use a swap-backed /tmp, assuming there's local swap. We should probably discuss why the rc.conf bits use malloc-backed by default in what sounds like a non-diskless environment? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > > panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 86233088 total allocated > > -- > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 23:33:25 UTC
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