Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:19:26 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@demon.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KVA/KVM shortages Message-ID: <199901212219.OAA19995@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:53:44 PST." <199901212153.NAA11404@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>> On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with >> 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: >> >> options "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024)" >> options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(128*1024*1024)" >> >> seems like a good way foward. Is it? > >>From what I can see, you shouldn't need to set VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX unless >you're also setting VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE. > >I just committed a tweak that allows you to say: > > set kern.vm.kmem.size=<value> > >at the loader prompt or in /boot/loader.rc to override the default >VM_KMEM_SIZE value. > >If anyone has any more of these tunables that can easily be enhanced >like this, please let me know. Is there a way from the boot loader that one can find out what options are available to be tuned? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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