Tag Archives: FreeBSD8

While experimenting with ZFS in FreeBSD, I made some tweaks to the vk.kmem_size variable in /boot/loader.conf. when setting it like this: #/boot/loader.conf vm.kmem_size="1024" everything worked, but I wanted to see what would happen if i doubled it. Unfortunately, setting vm.kmem_size to 2048 kept the FreeBSD kernel from booting. At startup it would just do this: panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status [...]