Re: kernel panic

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Carol Zick wrote:
> This is the error message:
> 
> panic: malloc: out of space in Kmem_map
> Stopped in thttpd at 0xf6ff2: unlk a6
...
> 
> I am know thinking of making changes to the
> kernel. I have NKMEMCLUSTERS=512 (I know
> that this is the kernel malloc area). How
> would this effect the kernel if I changed
> this to 768 or 1024? Would this make it more
> stable?


Possible, you can try it. But in any case, next time, please:

- provide a "trace"back at the debugger prompt
- provide the ps list at the debugger prompt (there is one)
- provide the ps list at the debugger prompt (there is one)
- provide the full kernel configuration file
- try to make a kernel core dump.

Regards,
        -is