Limitations on Memory Available to kmdb

The memory available to kmdb is allocated when the debugger is loaded, and cannot be expanded after that point in time. If debugger commands attempt to allocate more memory than is available, they will not be able to execute. The debugger will attempt to gracefully recover from low memory situations, but may be forced to terminate the system under dire circumstances. System memory constraints are especially acute on x86 platforms that use the 32–bit operating system kernel.