On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

> Thanks again for you suggestion.  Unfortunately I still get the same
> codec failure error on the auich audio driver when I increased the
> minimum NKMEMPAGES to 65536.  (Keep in mind that my sub-notebook has
> 512MB of RAM, minus 16MB for video.)
>
> With the kernel changes you suggested, I get the following:
>
> 	> sysctl vm.nkmempages
> 	vm.nkmempages = 65536
>
> Before it was set to 16384, so I doubled it.  I don't know if it
> helps, but at the end of this message, I have attached the output
> from "vmstat -m" below.

> ==== output from "vmstat -m" ========================================
> vmstat: kptr ffffffff: pool allocatior trashed: kvm_read: Bad address

I've never seen that, maybe a kernel/kvm/vmstat mismatch? In any case,
I suggest you file a bug report for the original problem.

Frederick