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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:40:00 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Tom Jensen <tom@insecurity.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated
Message-ID:  <20050612013959.GA40654@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050611231318.8E64E6363@bart.motd.dk>
References:  <20050611231318.8E64E6363@bart.motd.dk>

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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Tom Jensen wrote:
> Got the following panic on a 5.4 box(i386):
>=20
> panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated
>=20
> Uname: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #4: Sun May  8 01:57:26 CEST 2005
>=20
> Had two ntfs partitions mounted and was doing a find . -name *.pst on one=
 of
> them.
>=20
> Following info collected, but kernel dump aviable if more information is
> needed.

How much RAM in your system, and what is your kernel config?  This can
be caused by two things:

* A memory leak in FreeBSD

* Incorrect tuning of your kernel memory parameters and causing the
kernel to run out of memory.

Kris

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