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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:39:05 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Still getting kmem exhausted panic
Message-ID:  <4CA1EFF9.1050802@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20100928132355.GA63149@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <4CA1D06C.9050305@digiware.nl> <20100928115047.GA62142__15392.0458550148$1285675457$gmane$org@icarus.home.lan> <4CA1DDE9.8090107@icyb.net.ua> <20100928132355.GA63149@icarus.home.lan>

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on 28/09/2010 16:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:22:01PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I believe that "the trick" is to set vm.kmem_size high enough, eitehr using this
>> tunable or vm.kmem_size_scale.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I just wish I knew how vm.kmem_size_scale
> fit into the picture (meaning what it does, etc.).  The sysctl
> description isn't very helpful.  Again, my lack of VM knowledge...
> 

Roughly, vm.kmem_size would get set to <available memory> divided by
vm.kmem_size_scale.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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