Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?
Le Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:49:50 +1100, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com a écrit : Hello, I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 1998, I think (HP Omnibook 900). I use it for small network testing and serial console access. It works well for this. Well I've put 8-STABLE on it (two days to make buildworld/buildkernel). Looks good. From my limited testing under VirtualBox, 96 MB RAM is about the lower limit that will allow FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 to boot before the swap partition is enabled. Any less and the kernel will freeze or panic at boot. This was with the amd64 version though, not i386. Thanks for this, regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?
Hi, I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? Any work-around? Thanks regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?
On Sun 2012-10-21 18:21:59 UTC+0200, Patrick Lamaiziere (patf...@davenulle.org) wrote: I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 9.1-RELEASE isn't available yet, only 9.1-RC1 RC2. Given it's prerelease code it's plausible the 9.1-RC2 kernel requires more memory at boot than 9.1-REL will. Attempting to boot 9.0-REL from CD on your laptop should answer that question. From my limited testing under VirtualBox, 96 MB RAM is about the lower limit that will allow FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 to boot before the swap partition is enabled. Any less and the kernel will freeze or panic at boot. This was with the amd64 version though, not i386. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ?
On 21 October 2012 12:49, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Sun 2012-10-21 18:21:59 UTC+0200, Patrick Lamaiziere (patf...@davenulle.org) wrote: I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 9.1-RELEASE isn't available yet, only 9.1-RC1 RC2. Given it's prerelease code it's plausible the 9.1-RC2 kernel requires more memory at boot than 9.1-REL will. Attempting to boot 9.0-REL from CD on your laptop should answer that question. From my limited testing under VirtualBox, 96 MB RAM is about the lower limit that will allow FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 to boot before the swap partition is enabled. Any less and the kernel will freeze or panic at boot. This was with the amd64 version though, not i386. Keep in mind that the installer will take some memory on top of what is needed to boot FreeBSD. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
