Subject: Re: panic: vm_fork: no more kernel virtual memory
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/09/1998 15:34:49
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:32:58 -0700 (MST) 
>  Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu> wrote:
> 
> Take a look in mips/mips/pmap.c, line 264 (inside pmap_bootstrap()).  This
> is where the number of entries in the kernel's PTE table is computed.  This
> computation probably needs to be adjusted to better consider the value of
> maxproc.

In light of the fact that VM is going to be replaced by UVM, I just added
a line that said "Sysmapsize *= 2;".  Gross, but apparently effective; I
haven't had any more panics yet today.

Chris

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