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Article #1795Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"???
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:58
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:58
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In article <BvnD92.A35@cosy.sbg.ac.at> bnocker@puma.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) writes:
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>My NeXTdimension Turbo and another NeXTdimension Turbo are suffering from
>a strange behaviour which causes system panic more than twice a day!!
>The /usr/adm/messages and console simply reports "mach panic ... No more
>room in kernel map" and the system dies. Sometimes without syncing which
>causes some other problems!
>
>For further information: There are no special programs running, but the
>systems are running the whole day and are fileservers. We do not log out
>more than once a day (or because of crash). The systems are sometimes
>heavily loaded.
>
>Any comments or suggestions????
Heavily loaded, eh? If you run out of processes or threads, the
kernel will go down in flames... It's really, _really_ stupid, but
thats what happens. (although I think you'll get a "proc table
overflow" panic if that happens...)
andrew
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"??? Message-ID: <1992Oct6.155819.18904@cubetech.com> Keywords: next kernel map crash Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <BvnD92.A35@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:58:19 GMT Lines: 27