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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:38:28 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        TD790@aol.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NMBCLUSTERS question
Message-ID:  <20020128163828.Z13686@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <114.b82db03.29874825@aol.com>; from TD790@aol.com on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:34:45PM -0500
References:  <114.b82db03.29874825@aol.com>

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* TD790@aol.com <TD790@aol.com> [020128 16:35] wrote:
> 
> Is the kernel smart enough to know if there is enough memory available if you 
> allocate too many nmbclusters? For example, if you have a disk with a kernel 
> compiled with 25000 clusters and you pop it on a machine with only 64M, will 
> it crash and burn? Also are clusters allocated out of the VM_KMEM_SIZE or out 
> of remaining memory?

Most of the nmbclusters are borrowed from banned AOL users with too much
time on their hands.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]

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