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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:34:47 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing both NBUF and NMBCLUSTERS leads to panics
Message-ID:  <E10UfMl-0004wW-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzp7lrps9ap.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <199904061651.SAA11984@adv.iae.nl> <199904061806.LAA09677@apollo.backplane.com>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:
>Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
>> 
>>     The problem is that insufficient KVM is being reserved.  You need 
>>     to upgrade to the latest -CURRENT ( i.e. 4.x ).  The fixes will probably
>>     go into -STABLE before the next release, but they are not in yet.
>
>Nah, just read section 13.15 in the FreeBSD FAQ.

I don't think that covers all the bases: after patching the kernel for
a larger address space we couldn't boot it until we also patched /boot/loader.
I can't log into the machine with the patches right now to get the
details, but looking for recent threads on freebsd-current about large
memory machines will get you what you need.

Tony.
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