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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:57:50 -0800
From:      "John Stockdale" <jstockdale@stanford.edu>
To:        <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mdconfig/mdmfs problems -> kernel panic
Message-ID:  <000b01c2ecb7$1c089510$3d2c0c80@quenya>

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OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, JPSNAP20030314

I'm running a Dual Xeon system with 1GB DDRRAM, and trying to create a
ram disk to compile under, specifically to compile the kernel.

I've tried several methods, involving either creating one 512MB disk
with mdconfig or mdmfs. No matter what options I specify, the mounted
mfs works fine until I start filling it up more. For instance, I can
usually copy the entire /usr/src/sys to /mnt and make depend, but a
while after I make the kernel panics as a result of the ram disk.
(specifically citing malloc errors, one time it speicifically spat out a
number in the order of 251XXXXXX and indicated a malloc bucket limit
exceeded or something like that)

I've also tried making several (3x192MB) ram disks, mapping them as a
single device with ccdconfig, then using /dev/ccd0 mounted with the
appropriate newfs/mount commands. I get a different error (in fact
rather than a straight kernel panic, I get several errors directly
attributed to units on ccd0)

I apologize for not having the kernel panic info, but I havn't been able
to record it as of yet, and I don't have time to cause another panic
right now.

If that will help I'll be glad to try it again later this week and post
the exact info.

Thanks.

-John


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