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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: interesting new one
Message-ID:  <200009131739.KAA38810@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009131737.e8DHbUG94853@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 13, 2000 10:37:30 am"

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > > Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > checking for core dump...savecore: no core dump
> > > > Doing additional network setup: ntpdate ntpd portmap ypbind.
> > > > Starting final network daemons: mountdpanic: kmem_malloc(301973504): kmem
>     _map
> > > > too small: 6266880 total allocated
> > > 
> > > Kernel and world out of sync.  Specifically all the NFS stuff (or possibly
> > > portmap).  Disable NFS and you will boot fine.  Then you need to build a ne
>     w
> > > world of course.
> > 
> > Ow. Okay. Hmm. Interesting bootstrapping problem since all of my source is NF
>     S
> > mounted...
> 
> Heh.  That's why "conventional wisdom" is to NOT use modules while doing
> kernel development except for specific drivers that you are working on and
> loading/unloading manually.

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with modules though.  It has to do
with the interaction of the userland NFS daemons and the the kernel side of
NFS.  Note that it is trying to malloc approx. 300 meg. :P

> echo "NO_MODULES=too_dangerous" >> /etc/make.conf
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5

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