hi,

yea, something's leaking kernel memory.  if you collect the output of
"vmstat -m" periodically, that will give some clues as to where all the
memory is going.  or if you can get a crashdump, that will have the info
as well.

-Chuck


On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> A client is frequently getting the following on a 256MB single processor
> Compaq server running NetBSD 1.6.1 with DHCP, tftp and ftp for various
> clients (amongst other things).
> 
> panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
> Stopped in pid 5639 (inetd) at cpu_Debugger+0x4:	leave
> 
> They give the textual output of the trace command as:
> 
> cpu_Debugger
> panic
> malloc
> crget
> sys_access
> syscall_plain
> 
> I guess this is indicating a lack of memory or such like; I've left them
> running systat vmstat.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen
>