On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:58:57PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:23:06PM -0500, John Maier wrote:
> > I've suddenly been getting a lot of these errors after lock up.
> > 
> > Aug 27 16:17:20 mail savecore: reboot after panic: mapent_alloc: out of
> > static map entries, check MAX_KMAPENT
> > 
> > What does this mean?  Why has this suddenly started?
> 
> I guess something is using more ressources than it used to.
> MAX_KMAPENT is defined in uvm/uvm_map.h. It's 50 + (2 * NPROC), NPROC
> being kern.maxproc I guess.

Hadly surprising since processes done use any (ok maybe much)
that needs static map entries.

IIRC they are only used for kmem_alloc and network buffers.
Maybe some daemon process ought to be be asked to allocate a
few more when numbers are getting low?

	David

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