[[ since this is probably mostly a port-sparc issue I've set the
reply-to appropriately -- please honour it ]]

I finally got brave enough to try "make package" on my development sparc
system (1.5W-current 2001/06/24).  It eventually died though before
finishing:

	panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map

Now this machine has 287 MB of RAM, and I think that may be partly
related given my recent experience with trying to tune an older i386
kernel to handle several larger jobs on larger-memory systems.

I'm going to try locking down NBUF and BUFPAGES:

    options 	NBUF=1200				# buffer headers
    options 	BUFPAGES="(28*1024*1024/CLBYTES)"	# 10% of RAM

I'll report back on how this goes (why does an SS-20 with SM71 and all
that RAM seem so slow these days!?!?!?  ;-)

Here's dmesg.boot from the GENERIC kernel:

[ using 277704 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5W (GENERIC) #13: Sat Jun 30 15:04:13 EDT 2001
    woods@sometimes:/build/NetBSD-obj/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 287 MB
avail memory = 262 MB
using 896 buffers containing 14812 KB of memory
bootpath: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@0,0
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Axil-320
cpu0 at mainbus0: TMS390Z50 v0 or TMS390Z55 @ 75 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: physical 20K instruction (64 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 1024K external (32 b/l): cache enabled
obio0 at mainbus0
clock0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x200000: mk48t08: hostid 72971942
timer0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x300000 delay constant 35
zs0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x100000 level 12 softpri 6
zstty0 at zs0 channel 0 (console i/o)
zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
zs1 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 12 softpri 6
kbd0 at zs1 channel 0
ms0 at zs1 channel 1
fdc0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x700000 level 11 softpri 4: chip 82077
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
auxreg0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x800000
power0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0xa01000 level 2
iommu0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xe0000000: version 0x1/0x1, page-size 4096, range 64MB
sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 25 MHz
dma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400000: dma rev 2
esp0 at dma0 slot 15 offset 0x800000 level 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
ledma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400010: dma rev 2
le0 at ledma0 slot 15 offset 0xc00000 level 6: address 00:00:3b:80:3c:56
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
bpp0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x4800000 level 2 (ipl 3): dma rev 2
SUNW,DBRIe at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x8010000 level 9 not configured
eccmemctl0 at mainbus0: version 0x1/0x1
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
esp0: wide mode 0
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <WDIGTL, ENTERPRISE, 1.61> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 4157 MB, 5720 cyl, 8 head, 186 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8515173 sectors
sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32430N, 0510> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 2049 MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4197405 sectors
sd1: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
st0 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0: <EXABYTE, EXB-4200, 216> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
st0: drive empty
st0: async, 8-bit transfers
cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <PLEXTOR, CD-ROM PX-4XCH, 1.23> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
cd0: sync (248.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (4.032MB/s) transfers
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs


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