Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:19:57 -0400 From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE Message-ID: <4704E87D.4020608@seclark.us> In-Reply-To: <fe0lhg$t21$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <47039CB4.5040306@seclark.us> <4703C245.9000104@mac.com> <4703C4FB.4030809@seclark.us> <4703C687.2010201@mac.com> <4703D5B6.4070003@seclark.us> <fe0lhg$t21$1@sea.gmane.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ivan Voras wrote: >Stephen Clark wrote: > > > >>looking at kmem_suballoc which calls vm_map_find which returns >>KERN_NO_SPACE >>which is defined as 3. >> >>Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? >> >> > >1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of >memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that >many values) >2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get enough >memory >3. Kernel structures for tracking and using memory are also stored in >kernel memory. 24 GB of memory with PAE probably "eats up" a lot of >those. I think you'll need to increase kmem_size (see >http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide for an example - ignore >ZFS-specific things). > > > Hi Ivan, It made no difference. Still the same error. Is anyone actually using PAE with FreeBSD 6.2? I have found practically no information using google. Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4704E87D.4020608>