Just to follow up for the record -- I rebuilt my kernel with the
NKMEMPAGES=5120 option and VOILA!  30 hours later (:-)) on my dual-cpu
Sparc 20, I have a complete release build of NetBSD/sparc!

 Thanks all!

Gordon


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:09:39 -0000, Gary Parker <G.J.Parker@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org
> > [mailto:port-sparc-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Johan A.van Zanten
> > Sent: 16 February 2005 23:31
> > To: gordonzaft@gmail.com
> > Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Problems building -current on sparc20
> >
> > I saw some errors like this when building some things in
> > pkgsrc. (My machine is a dual CPU SPARC-20 running 2.0) A few
> > days later i had a kernel panic:
> >
> > /netbsd: panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
> >
> >
> >  I searched netbsd.org a bit and then added this to my kernel config:
> >
> > options NKMEMPAGES_MAX=5120
> >
> >  5120 may be more than is needed.  So far, though, i've run 6
> > days without  any problems, so perhaps compiling a custom
> > kernel with an increased  NKMEMPAGES_MAX will help you.
> 
> I've got nothing new to add to this but just thought I'd mention that that
> fixed exactly the same issue I was having with my SS20, 2xCPU, 256MB RAM.
> 
> Gary
> 
> 


-- 
Gordon Zaft
gordonzaft@gmail.com