If you have a lot of RAM (>128MB), and find that your machine
crashes fairly often, the following could be your problem:
``When accessing a filesystem where the blocks are 2 KB [or larger],
such as a CD, the [disk] cache gets bigger. When you have 256MB of
RAM [or greater], it gets so big that the kernel_heap collides with
another part of the kernel called the vm_heap. When that happens,
the kernel can no longer resize its heap, and that's a fatal problem
[the kernel panics, and you get thrown into KDL -- read: your system
crashes]."
The fix:
Copy the file /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/sample/kernel to
/boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers.
Edit /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers and uncomment the
disk_cache_size line by
removing the # sign.
Change 2048 to 16384.
Save your changes and reboot.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Quoted text taken from BeFAQs.com.
Submitted by: Nate LaCourse
Submittor's URL: http://cibo.dhs.org/