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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: panic !!
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:14:16 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601181254.EAA06699@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 18, 96 04:54:54 am
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> >Sometimes my FreeBSD 2.0 reboots saying: 
> >Panic: kmem_map (or mb_map) too small !
> >
> >I know that this problem is caused by a vm problem,
> >My system has 48mb Ram ... I think that's' enought...
> >Can anyone help me to avoi this problem ?
> >Can I increase the size of these maps ?
> 
>    The panic indicates that the system ran out of virtual memory for network
> buffers (specifically, mbuf clusters). You can increase the amount of VM
> avaliable for mbuf clusters by adding:

Any chance of either causing these to be dynamically allocated or failing
the request back to userspace with ENOMEM instead of panicing?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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