Re: kernel panic:kmem_zone_zalloc: NULL memory on KM_SLEEP request!

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:23:47AM +0100, marat wrote:
> Nathan,
> 
> Thanks a lot for a good explanation.
> 
> At the moment we are using 4Gb of memory on this machine. Do you think, it 
> will help if I add more  memory ? 
> 
> And, you said it tries to allocated memory a number of times. Is it in 
> support/kmem.c file : 
>  #define MAX_SHAKE 8  ?
> May be I can try to increase this value.

Thats the right file, but look at DEF_PRIORITY not MAX_SHAKE.
I think you'll be better off tweaking those VM sysctls though,
or trying a more recent kernel.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan