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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:16:20 +0300
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: md-mounted /tmp filled up
Message-ID:  <20070306131620.GA88463@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <200703051314.29902@aldan>
References:  <20070227205351.GA72597@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20070305035945.GA71660@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070305132350.GB57253@comp.chem.msu.su> <200703051314.29902@aldan>

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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:14:29PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 08:23, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> = > How will it break them? šswap backing only touches swap if there is
> = > memory pressure, i.e. precisely the situation in which malloc backing
> = > will panic.
> = 
> = I forgot that in BSD swap wouldn't be allocated in advance to its
> = consumers. šThen removing the -M flag and making swap backing the
> = default is a very sound choice. šThank you for correcting me.
> 
> Yar, would you change the man-page's advice and the default, then?

Done in CURRENT.  I'll MFC it in a week.

-- 
Yar



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