Re: kern/45718: processes sometimes get stuck and spin in vm_map

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45718; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/45718: processes sometimes get stuck and spin in vm_map
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 08:43:58 +0000

 pmap(8) on the kernel_map (`pmap -V 0x87654321' with the address of
 kernel_map as shown by crash(8)) shows that kva is fragmented enough
 that there is indeed no empty space of at least #x40000 bytes, and
 that every request to exec_pool requiring a new kva allocation is
 guaranteed to fail.