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Re: What the hell is "No more room in kernel map"???

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
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:
>
>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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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>
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