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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:37:29 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reboot while booting with new per-CPU allocator
Message-ID:  <20050617113729.i78gx3wiokw48g8k@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050616184127.L27625@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <42B18536.3080200@videotron.ca> <20050616151502.X27625@fledge.watson.org> <42B192D2.7000505@videotron.ca> <20050616181820.E27625@fledge.watson.org> <42B1B784.8010405@videotron.ca> <20050616184127.L27625@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Looks like what basically happened is this these kern_malloc.c 
> changes increase the memory burden on UMA as statistics structures 
> for malloc types now get allocated from UMA.  It looks like, from 
> your dmesg, you have a fair number of modules loaded, so the storage 
> for the statistics comes out of the early UMA page pool, whereas 
> before it came out of BSS. We'll see if further tuning is required or 
> not with large numbers of modules.

I try to load as much as possible as modules. Can you quantify "large number
of modules"? I could load some more modules for testing purposes at the
weekend.

Bye,
Alexander.

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