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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:59:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, barry.boes@acciodata.com
Subject:   Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G?
Message-ID:  <200808270959.m7R9xOMo086923@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <18612.51201.285688.628405@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

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Barry Boes wrote:
 > With the advent of ZFS, Solaris users are devoting 30G or more to
 > their ARC caches today.  If FreeBSD 8 is going to up the KVM size, is
 > there a reason to not increase the limit to something that will not be
 > reached in the lifetime of 8?  100GB?

I think Alan Cox recently increased the kmem limit in
8-current from 1.5 GB to 7 GB, and the default is 4.2 GB.

http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=180311

I don't know if this will be MFCed.  It will not be in
7.1-Release; it's too late for that.

Best regards
   Oliver

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