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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 00:22:09 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world 
Message-ID:  <53079.990656529@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 00:17:02 %2B0200." <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org> 

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In message <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:32:48PM -0700, phk@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>> Synopsis: md causes hang with make world
>> 
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>> State-Changed-By: phk
>> State-Changed-When: Wed May 23 12:32:02 PDT 2001
>> State-Changed-Why: 
>> The md driver uses non-swappable ram for storage.  You have simply
>> RAM-starved your system to death.
>
>What leads you to that conlusion? Can you elaborate on that a bit more?
>
>The machine in question has 1G of physical ram and the Malloc disk (md)
>is 600Megs big.

and that is simply not possible.

the Malloc disk is limited by the amount of RAM malloc(9) can allocate
in one bucket.   Use vmstat(8) to see how much that is for your machine.

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