Subject: Re: UVM stability (was: Re: IMPORTANT: new partition ID)
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/22/1998 21:27:52
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 03:25:13 +0100 
 Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl> wrote:

 > The panic originates from a pagefault, where the i386 pmap runs out
 > of kernel PT pages. In this case, I know that I have enough PT pages
 > for the kernel, so I suspect that something is leaking kmem pages,
 > but I haven't really looked further yet.

It's the exec code, or more generically, anything that allocates memory
from kernel_object with a submap.

We're working on a solution for the problem, but don't have one yet (unless
I just haven't gotten to it in my mail yet :-)

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