Subject: Re: kernal panic in NetBSD 1.3...
To: Luke Miller <millerlu@peak.org>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/31/1999 20:47:35
On 941427819 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Luke Miller wrote:
>
>
>I am running NetBSD 1.3 on an i386,  I know that I need to upgrade to a
>newer software version (and that will probobly fix the problem that I am
>having), but I was hoping there was a quick patch or kernel modification I
>could make in the short term.  Here is what I am getting:
>
>malloc() out of mem in kmem_map.
>
>Any help would be greatly apprecated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Luke

Well, I'd first try setting NKMEMCLUSTERS (see man 4 options) in
your kernel config.  You can find the default value in
/usr/include/machine/param.h, and increasing this value may help
assuming that you are not running into the problem due to some bad
behaviour.

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