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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:09:59 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Hyong-Youb Kim <hykim@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern.ipc.maxsockets
Message-ID:  <20020228080959.GF80761@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202280128230.20949-100000@frosty.cs.rice.edu>
References:  <20020228045834.GA80761@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202280128230.20949-100000@frosty.cs.rice.edu>

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* Hyong-Youb Kim <hykim@cs.rice.edu> [020227 23:30] wrote:
> 
> 
> > > The server machine I am working on has 2GB of memory and 1.6G Athlon CPU.
> > > It currently runs FreeBSD-4.3-RELEASE.
> > > I have been trying to get kern.ipc.maxsockets above 64K. I have tried
> > > 128K, 100K, and so on. 80K worked but for all others, the system halted
> > > during the boot saying 'pager_swap_zone = null'. I am guessing that the
> > > kernel zone allocator cannot allocate enough map space for the pager swap?
> > > I am wondering if anyone knows how to get around this problem. Thanks.
> >
> > 4-stable has a fix for this.
> 
> If the problem doesn't involve many files, is there anyway to get a diff
> patch against 4.3-RELEASE? Thanks.

Sure.  Look at src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c near revision 1.150 to 1.162

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-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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