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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:33:57 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        greg@uswest.net, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP Woes 
Message-ID:  <199903112133.NAA09556@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:33:50 PST." <199903112033.MAA01071@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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>> Bingo !!! The system is a 1 gig of memory, 4 cpu's. Maxusers down to 64 solved
>> the Fatal Trap problem. I'll try moving the number up in stages and see where
>> it breaks. I had been using 256 and a couple times 512 in testing. Thanks.
>
>You can also raise the kernel VM size with
>
>set kern.vm.kmem.size=<value>
>
>in /boot/loader.rc
>
>You'll need to look at how the kernel memory is actually sized to 
>determine what a good value for this is; this is a runtime override for 
>the compile-time option VM_KMEM_SIZE.

   Actually, that only increases the kernel malloc space. The total KVM is
still controlled by other parameters.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


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