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To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: kmem_malloc, kmem map too small 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:26:39 -0800
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>I got a panic similar to the above every 15 minutes no a bsd 2.1R with 
>12MB ram, 486/66 and apache 1.0.3
>
>Anyone know what that error means?

   It means that the kernel ran out of malloc space. Pretty incredible
considering that it should have 32MB to work with. This is likely an indicator
that you have one or more kernel config parameters set in the twilight zone.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project