Re: Kernel memory allocation oddities in NetBSD-10.99.12

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> writes:

> If execargs can always find 200,000 bytes to allocate, how is it that pcgnormal or xnfrx, which
> allocate 256 bytes and 4096 bytes respectively, cannot?

Beware that I am slightly hazy on all things pool.

If you are using zfs, things are known to be unstable.

If these are pools, then a pool with free objects can satisfy
allocations, even if there are no free pages, but a pool with no free
objects cannot.