On a client's system, that I recently installed with 1.3, I got the
report that it had crashed with this panic: vm_map_entry_create: out of
map entries.

Looking at options(4) I tried to increase NKMEMCLUSTERS. Although it
mentions a panic where it might be useful to do so, and that panic
differs from mine, it does not seem to exist. So maybe the text changed or
something.

Is increasing NKMEMCLUSTERS a sensible idea to do? If not, what else?

Oh, btw, it saved a crash dump, but I forgot the incantation to get
gdb to read it. Can anybody tell me?

dmesg output follows:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 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 1.3 (xxxxx) #2: Tue Feb 10 03:45:26 CET 1998
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/xxxxxxxx

cpu0: family 5 model 4 step 3
cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX (586-class)
real mem  = 33157120
avail mem = 31137792
using 430 buffers containing 1761280 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7100 (rev. 0x01)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7110 (rev. 0x01)
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7111 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7112 (USB serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 7 function 2 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7113 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
vendor 0x5333 product 0x8901 (VGA display, revision 0x04) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
ne1 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 10
ne1: NE2000 Ethernet
ne1: Ethernet address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
atapibus0 at wdc0
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A>
wd0: 3079MB, 6256 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1
vt0: unknown s3, 80 col, color, 6 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.32]
vt0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 4040 netmask 4440 ttymask 44c2
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs

-Olaf.
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