Re: Kernel memory allocation oddities in NetBSD-10.99.12

Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Brian Buhrow <[email protected]> writes:

> If execargs can always find 200,000 bytes to allocate, how is it that pcgnormal or xnfrx, which
> allocate 256 bytes and 4096 bytes respectively, cannot?

Beware that I am slightly hazy on all things pool.

If you are using zfs, things are known to be unstable.

If these are pools, then a pool with free objects can satisfy
allocations, even if there are no free pages, but a pool with no free
objects cannot.
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