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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:08:39 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small (AMD64)
Message-ID:  <20070923010839.GL7562@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <46F58799.1030702@freebsd.org>
References:  <20070921102946.T11189@borg> <46F415BF.9010500@FreeBSD.org> <20070921140550.D96923@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <46F41CFF.6080108@FreeBSD.org> <46F58799.1030702@freebsd.org>

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In the last episode (Sep 22), Darren Reed said:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>>> I'm a heavy ZFS user, and got the following panic on 2007-09-18 
>>>>> source/world:
>>>> 
>>>> This is a FAQ, please see the archives (you need to increase the 
>>>> vm.kmem_size to provide more memory to ZFS).
>>> 
>>> I thought that was only for i386, and it hadn't been an issue before.
>> 
>> Nope.  It is also load-dependent.
> 
> So I just received this courtesy of ZFS:
> panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 343027712 total allocated
> cpuid = 0
> KDB: enter: panic
> 
> This was with these settings in loader.conf:
> vm.kmem_size=419430400
> vm.kmem_size_max=419430400
> vfs.zfs.arc_max=409715200
> 
> (That's 400M, 400M and 40M, respectively.)

That's actually 400M, 400M, and 390M; count the digits :)  If you want
400M, just put "400M" in loader.conf.  Makes it a lot easier to read,
and harder to get wrong.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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