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Date:      Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:28:51 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS kmem_map too small.
Message-ID:  <86ve9hr5fw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <864ph17jmx.fsf@ds4.des.no> ("Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rg?= =?utf-8?Q?rav=22's?= message of "Mon\, 08 Oct 2007 16\:42\:30 %2B0200")
References:  <20071005000046.GC92272@garage.freebsd.pl> <20071008121523.GM2327@garage.freebsd.pl> <86bqb97mym.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20071008134407.GB67153@cicely12.cicely.de> <864ph17jmx.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:30:41PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrot=
e:
> > > Speaking of which, I tried setting vm.kmem_size to 2G on a C2D system
> > > with 4 GB RAM, but it simply panics:
> > >=20
> > > OK set vm.kmem_size=3D2G
> > This sounds like there's a signed 32 bit limit somewhere.
> Yes, this is really stupid - vm.kmem_size is an int.  Thanks for setting
> me on the right track.

Actually, somebody pointed out to me that due to the memory model used,
amd64 can only have 2 GB KVA, and that includes other things besides
kmem, so even with the tunable bug fixed, the best I can hope for is
probably 1.5 GB.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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