Thus spake tcjam
> So here is the nice log of my session to help someone figure this out.
> 
> # stty erase ^H
> [ I'd say about 20 seconds ]
> panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
> Stopped at      _Debugger+0x6:  unlk    a6
> db> t
> _Debugger(40,1000,87fb48,223b8,220c8) + 6
> _panic(220c8,106d600,0,0,c) + 50
> _malloc(3a,1f,0,106d600,ffff0000) + 1ea
> _uvm_map_clip_end(106d600,1fff040,0) + 24
> _amap_copy(106d600,1fff040,1,1,ffffc000,ffffc001) + 8c
> _uvmfault_amapcopy(87fcb4,106d600,8,ffffc000,3) + 134
> _uvm_fault(106d600,ffffc000,0,3) + 1e8
> _trap(8,4010709,ffffca84) + 52a
> faultstkadj(87fee8,87fe2c,ffffca84,4260000) + 0
> _sys_execve(1064a00,87ff88,87ff80) + 324
> _syscall(3b) + 13e
> _trap0() + e
> db> reboot
> syncing disks... done
> NetBSD/mac68k does not trust itself to update the RTC on shutdown.
> rebooting...

Just a wild guess, do you have swap enabled in /etc/fstab?

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