Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:56:35 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Barry Boes <barry.boes@acciodata.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G? Message-ID: <48B55D13.1060609@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <18613.21419.16360.120533@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <18612.51201.285688.628405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <48B52AEE.9080205@FreeBSD.org> <18613.21419.16360.120533@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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Barry Boes wrote: > I could apply such a patch to my servers, but there are two disadvantages : > o who wants to apply kernel patches to mission critical servers? Isn't > that a linux thing (joke!) A trivial tweak would let you set both parameters in your kernel configuration as an option. > o what about apps like the linuxulator that might not stand for this? Why do you think they will care? > On the tunable option : with today's kmem_size and kmem_size_max > tunables, would there also be a need to tune the portion of address > space available to kmem? Yes, it is still suballocated out of the kernel map. Kris
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