Subject: Re: Problems with NetBSD-current kernels after 2005-10-04
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 10/11/2005 17:17:57
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:32AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> >     The panic which I've posted this morning might be related to tmpfs.
> >     Thomas Klausner who is not seeing panics any more isn't using it.
> >     Peter Postma's and my system both use it and crash frequently.
> tmpfs uses 2K of kernel memory per file.  With lots of files in a 
> tmpfs, it's very easy to exhaust kernel memory... (Bumping NKMEMPAGES 
> does help, but it doesn't solve the problem)

"tmpfs" has already  been ruled out as the reason for the crashes.
If it would however exhaust kernel memory I would expect a
"cannot alloc something" panic but not these faults.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/