On Wed, 14 May 1997 12:14:04 +0300 (EET DST) 
 Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:

 > Just got this on NetBSD 1.2 (64 MB RAM, lots of swap):
 > 
 > panic: vm_map_entry_create: out of map entries
 > 
 > How do I keep this from happening again?  I did a 'ps' on the core dump and
 > saw a huge amount of sendmail processes there (that's probably what killed
 > the system).

...you've run out of statically-allocated vm_map_entry's for kernel_map.
The number that is allocated is defined in vm_map.h:

#define        MAX_KMAPENT     500

That should probably be dynamically sized at boot time... but I'm not
sure what the "correct" formula would be... You can kludge it for now
by simply increasing that number.

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