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From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:36:25 +0200
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Subject: Re: panic: kmem_map too small
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Am 25.10.2006 um 19:31 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick:

> Try tuning memory parameters via loader.conf:
>
> $ cat /boot/loader.conf
> # Increase maximum allocatable memory on a process to 768MB.
> # We don't choose 2GB (our amount of RAM) since that would
> # exhaust all memory, and result in a kernel panic.  Maximum
> # stack size is still set to 128MB.  One can view these
> # settings using limits(1).
> #
> kern.maxdsiz="805306368"
> kern.dfldsiz="805306368"
> kern.maxssiz="134217728"
>
> Adjusting kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc might also help.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand correctly.  How would increasing the  
per-process limits help with memory exhaustion in the kernel?


Stefan

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