Subject: Re: box crashses after about 1d uptime
To: Larry <rsx@bd.netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/17/2003 20:34:03
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:03:05PM -0500, Larry wrote:
> hi, i recently upgraded to 1.6.1_RC1 and now my box crashses after about 1 day. it's really crazy, when it crashes, i get something like this:
> 
> panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
> Stopped in pid 3895 (cron) at cpu_debugger+0x4:   leave
> db>
> db> tr
> cpu_Debugger(100,0,8,18,1000) at cpu_Debugger+0x4
> panic(c04f3600,0,1000,0,0) at panic + 0xad
> malloc(fc,3f,0,c027847e,6a000) at malloc+0x1b7
> vmcmdset_extend

Maybe also try 'ps' to see what's running. Does you box have high load,
or some unusual services ?

> it was alot to type, so i didnt write it all. but can someone help? i tried adding 2m swap space, but it still crashses.

This won't help, this kind of memory can't be paged.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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