I've been seeing this too but didn't report it because it didn't seem to be hurting anything.

Tim


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:Hi Steve,
:
:i get too on boot sporadically 'M_NOWAIT kmalloc failed, trying
:M_WAITOK', but just under VirtualBox environment. Didn't mentioned it,
:as i saw no link with livelock problem.

   This is unrelated to the livelocks and probably harmless.  It's another
   area (the tty clist buffer code) which needs revamping to remove the
   memory allocation requirements.

                                       -Matt
                                       Matthew Dillon
                                       <dillon@backplane.com>