Bug 63986

Summary: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 panics when removing large diretories
Product: Base System Reporter: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.2.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Gerhard Schmidt 2004-03-09 13:50:05 UTC 
When I try to delete large directory (the build dir of make release for example) freebsd panic with 
panic: kmem_malloc(4096) kmem_map to small: 275251200 total allocated

Fix: 

not known
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway 2004-03-10 04:45:46 UTC 
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:

> real memory  = 4160684032 (3967 MB)
> avail memory = 4044120064 (3856 MB)

> When I try to delete large directory (the build dir of make release for example) freebsd panic with 
> panic: kmem_malloc(4096) kmem_map to small: 275251200 total allocated

The problem is that the default kernel auto-sizing parameters are
sometimes too small for large memory machines.  You can fix the
problem by tuning them yourself; see kern/53416 for an older PR with
details.

Kris
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-03-10 04:46:31 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Duplicate of 53416