there have been previous reports of that panic under heavy network load.
if you still have the files that savecore created, could you put them
somewhere I can ftp (or otherwise fetch) them?  I'll see if I can
figure anything out from those.

-Chuck


Gunnar Helliesen writes:
> I noticed one of our servers has rebooted and found this in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> 
> Mar 27 20:31:42 lyons savecore: reboot after panic: malloc: out of space
> in kmem_map
> Mar 27 20:31:42 lyons savecore: /var/crash/bounds: No such file or
> directory
> Mar 27 20:31:42 lyons savecore: writing core to /var/crash/netbsd.0.core
> Mar 27 20:33:15 lyons savecore: writing kernel to /var/crash/netbsd.0
> 
> 
> What does this panic mean? How can I fix it? 
> 
> BTW, the machine in question has 512 MB ECC RAM and I've never seen it
> use more than a fraction of that (perhaps 150 MB). The machine is used
> as a Web and mail server.
> 
> This is on NetBSD/i386 1.3.2.
> 
> Gunnar
> 
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