From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 11 08:11:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03824 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam-mail-relay1.bbnplanet.com (cam-mail-relay1.bbnplanet.com [199.94.215.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03789 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moncrg@am026091.res.ray.com) Received: from gatekeeper.ray.com (gatekeeper.ray.com [138.125.162.1]) by cam-mail-relay1.bbnplanet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01374 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (mailer@localhost) by gatekeeper.ray.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA09470 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:04:00 -0400 Received: from am026091.res.ray.com/138.125.142.48() by gatekeeper.ray.com id sma.897574838.019019; Thu Jun 11 10:20:38 1998 Received: (from moncrg@localhost) by am026091.res.ray.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01447 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:13:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from moncrg) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Gregory D. Moncreaff" Message-Id: <199806111513.KAA01447@am026091.res.ray.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: maxusers and panic in kmem_suballoc Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The other day I exceeded the system capacity of a 64meg ram machine via an overlarge (1000) maxusers [I was trying to build a kernel that would support several thousand descriptors >10k] I was wondering if anyone out there has a formula. script, etc that can evaluate maxusers and related parameters in a kernel config file against physical memory + swap and produce some kind of 'map' stating how much memory will be 'wired' etc, and perhaps some indication of sanity of such a configuration To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message